SBIR/STTR Research Award
2nd Law Based Design and Analysis Tools for Optimization of Aerospace Systems
Award amount
$849,931Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- M4 ENGINEERING, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2005-06-08
- Contract end date
- 2007-10-08
- UEI
- DM3EW67JLQM1
- Solicitation number
- 2004.1
- Topic code
- AF04-245
Research abstract
The proposed effort builds on an existing multidisciplinary optimization (MDO) framework for high speed air vehicles to investigate the applicability of 2nd law based optimization criteria to vehicle design. This will result in a multidisciplinary analysis and optimization process focused on the second-law assessment and improvement of aerospace vehicles. The existing MDO framework will be modified to allow calculation of 2nd law based system figures of merit, and to determine the mechanisms and subsystems responsible for vehicle performance losses and inefficencies. An analysis and optimization of two hypersonic vehicles will be performed using the new method as well as a conventional weight based optimization. The results of these applications will be used to identify strengths of exergy based methods for optimization of flight vehicles.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Hypersonic Computational Fluid Dynamics Heat Flux Sub-Models
- PyFoil81: Rotorcraft Design Tool Airfoil Table Generator
- High-Fidelity Computational Modeling of Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions in Hypersonic Air-Breathing Systems
- UAM Design Space Exploration Framework with Embedded Version Control
- Low Cost Carbon-Carbon Development for Hypersonic Flight Systems
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Advanced Software Tool for Integrated Analysis and Design Optimization of Aerospace Systems
- Exergy-Based Design and Analysis for Optimization of Aerospace Components and Systems
- Advanced Exergy-Based Software Tool for Analysis and Synthesis/Design Optimization of Aerospace Components and Systems
Research funding history
83 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2004–2026). Reported award amounts total $30,097,301. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration