SBIR/STTR Research Award
A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS TOOL FOR DUCTED PROPELLERS
Award amount
$69,399Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2001Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Sukra Helitek Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- NG59DUUYTJT5
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
The use of ducted propellers as the quiet propulsive device for UnmannedAerial Vehicles (UAV) is steadily gaining popularity. Their successful application as the fenestron tail rotor is global and well established.This research proposes a comprehensive analysis tool for ducted propellers.In Phase I, an axially symmetric Navier-Stokes flow solver capable of analyzing the ducted fan in climb, hover and descent will be developedand integrated with an intutive graphical user interface. The rotor will bemodeled as an axis-symmetric momentum source in the governing equations. An automated grid generation based on the geomtric characteristics of the duct will be an integral part of the tool. In Phase II, the analysis tool will be extended to non-axial forward flight conditions.
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.
- A Computational Tool for High Advance Ratio Configurations
- RotCFD: A Viscous Design Tool for Advanced Configurations
- An Aero-Acoustic Tool for Terminal Area Operations
- RotCFD: A Viscous Design Tool for Advanced Configurations
- Computational Wind Tunnel: A Design Tool for Rotorcraft
Research funding history
17 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1999–2014). Reported award amounts total $5,209,668. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Defense