SBIR/STTR Research Award
WATER HAMMER SURFACE IMPACT CLEANER
Award amount
$40,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1987Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Science Foundation
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- CONTINUUM DYNAMICS INC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- DUE3E75K1MJ3
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THE COLLAPSE OF A STEAM BUBBLE IN A POOL OF SUBCOOLED WATER IS KNOWN TO RESULT IN THE RADIATION OF PRESSURE WAVES OF ENORMOUS MAGNITUDE. THESE PRESSURE WAVES CAN BE USED TO FRACTURE MATERIALS AND/OR REMOVE MATERIAL IF THEY CAN BE DIRECTED. DEVELOPMENT OF A NOZZLE IS PROPOSED WHICH WILL DIRECT COLLAPSING STEAM BUBBLES TOWARDS A SURFACE AND SET UP STRESS WAVES IN THE SOLID WHICH WILL RESULT IN SURFACE CLEANING. THE NOZZLE SERVES A SECOND PURPOSE IN CARRYING AWAY SHARDS OF MATERIAL WHICH HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SURFACE. IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT THE ABOVE DEVICE, WHEN PERFECTED, COULD BE USED TO REMOVE ANY AFIXED MATERIAL WITHOUT DEGRADING THE MECHANICAL, CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE SURFACE TO WHICH IT IS ATTACHED.
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.
- Family of Retrofittable Drag Reduction Systems for Tactical Aircraft Range Extension
- Full-Scale eVTOL Aircraft Flight Dynamics Testing, Modeling and Simulation
- Development of a Modular Multiphysics Simulation Platform for Aerosol and Particulate Dispersion Modeling
- Source Noise Model for Rotorcraft Operations Planning
- Loss Of Control Observer for Safety Assurance
Research funding history
271 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2026). Reported award amounts total $78,620,383. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Agriculture