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Subsonic Fixed Wing Project
The goal of the Subsonic Fixed Wing (SFW) project is to conduct long-term, cutting-edge research in the core competencies of the subsonic fixed wing regime, thereby producing knowledge, data, capabilities, technologies, and design tools at the foundational, discipline, multidiscipline and systems levels that will enable improved prediction methods and technologies for lower noise, lower emissions (including NOx, CO2, water vapor, volatiles, unburned hydrocarbons, particulate matter, and soot), and higher performance for subsonic aircraft. Higher performance includes energy efficiency and operability technologies that enable advanced airframe and engine systems.

The project has identified the following key technical challenges that will be combined into higher level multi-disciplinary challenges: material science and mechanics of materials and structures; reacting flow physics; control methods and strategies; dynamic modeling and simulation; acoustics physics; aeroelasticity; computational methods; fluid dynamics and heat transfer; and new experimental methods and techniques.


The following are ROA-2007 NRA awards for the SFW Project, with the most recent listed first.
+ ROA-2007 SFW Project NRA Awards (click to open and close panel)


PI Last Name Title Organization State Award Date Year 1 Amount
Marcrorie Small Commercial Efficient & Quiet Air Transportation for 2030-2035 General Electric Aviation OH 09/29/2008 $1,973,055
Baber Advanced Concept Studies for Subsonic Commercial Transport Aircraft Entering Service in the 2030-2035 Time Period Northrop Grumman CA 09/29/2008 $1,965,758
Bradley Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research (SUGAR) The Boeing Company CA 09/26/2008 $1,908,650
Greitzer Aircraft and Technology Concepts for an N+3 Subsonic Transport Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA 08/29/2008 $2,132,926


The following are ROA-2006 NRA awards for the SFW Project, with the most recent listed first.
+ ROA-2006 SFW Project Awards (click to open and close panel)


PI Last Name Title Organization State Award Date Year 1 Amount
Bakere High Fidelity MDO: Software Infrastructure and Application to Subsonic Aircraft M4 Engineering, Inc. CA 11/16/2007 $404,159
Gelhausen A Systems Analysis And Design Approach To The Hybrid Wing/Body Aircraft Avid LLC VA 11/02/2007 $362,000
Kapania Subtopic A.2.4.3 Advanced Curvilinear-Stiffened Unitized Structures: Analytical Tool and Manufacturing Process Development and Validation Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University VA 10/15/2007 $1,024,000
Marshall The Integrated Modeling And Verification Of Hybrid Wing-Body, Low Noise ESTOL Aircraft Cal Poly Corporation CA 09/28/2007 $874,000
Liebeck / Kawai Methodology and Test Validation for an Efficient Low-Noise Hybrid Wing/Body Subsonic Transport Boeing Company MO 09/28/2007 $1,600,000
Velicki Damage Arresting Composites for Shaped Vehicles Boeing Company MO 09/28/2007 $942,000
Dalton Advanced Design Techniques for MDAO of Turbomachinery with Emphasis on Component Optimization for the Engine System Advanced Virtual Engine Test Cell, Inc. OH 09/28/2007 $205,000
Florea Robust Design For Embedded Engine Systems United Technologies Corporation CT 09/27/2007 $555,000
Haimes Control of Boundary Representation Topology in MDAO Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA 09/22/2007 $315,351
Timko Experimental Measurements Of The Composition Of Volatile Particles Present In Aircraft Gas Turbine Engine Exhaust Aerodyne Research Inc MA 09/17/2007 $264,000
Mace Inlet Flow Control And Prediction Technologies For Embedded Propulsion Systems Boeing Company WA 09/17/2007 $661,000
Curtin Physics-Based Multiscale Modeling of Multifunctional Nanoceramic Composites for Subsonic Engine Components Brown University RI 09/12/2007 $246,000
Wong Model-Based Design Of Improved High-Temperature, High-Pressure Particle Sampling Probes And Characterization Of Chemical Composition Of Volatile Particle Emissions Aerodyne Research Inc MA 08/27/2007 $149,000
Cattafesta Unsteady Circulation Control For High-Performance, Low-Noise Aircraft University Of Florida FL 08/24/2007 $265,000
Mavris Enhanced Modeling And Analysis For Technology Cost-Benefit Estimation Georgia Tech Research Corporation GA 08/20/2007 $182,000
Crossley System-of-Systems Approach For Assessing New Techologies In NGATS Purdue University IN 08/19/2007 $262,000
Whitfield Validated Aerodynamic Analysis and Design Tools for Integrated Embedded Aircraft Propulsion Systems University of Tennessee TN 08/17/2007 $494,000
Mavris Modeling Of Vehicle Environmental Characteristics Including New Technologies/Concepts For The Next Generation Air Transportation System Georgia Tech Research Corporation GA 08/03/2007 $500,000
Thomas External Aircraft Noise Control Using Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuators:Benchmark Experiments And Les Simulations Notre Dame IN 08/01/2007 $164,000
Willcox Advanced Multidisciplinary Optimization Techniques For Efficient Subsonic Aircraft Design Massachusetts Institute Of Technology MA 08/01/2007 $351,000
McDonald A Multidisciplinary Geometry Based Framework Connecting Design, Optimization, Aerodynamics, And Structures. Cal Poly Corporation CA 07/26/2007 $345,000
Meeks Experimental and Modeling Studies of the Combustion Characteristics of Conventional and Alternative Jet Fuels Reaction Design CA 05/07/2007 $601,000
Spakovszky Noise Reduction Concepts for Highly-Integrated Propulsion Systems with Inlet Flow Distortion Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA 05/02/2007 $505,000
Cattafesta Development Of Advanced Zero-Net Mass-Flux Actuators University Of Florida FL 03/19/2007 $711,000
Guo Development of the Next Generation of Airframe Noise Prediction Tools Boeing Company CA 02/05/2007 $108,000
Dougherty Improving Phased Array Techniques to Account for Extended Sources of Fan and Jet Noise Optinav Inc. WA 02/05/2007 $175,000
Volino Flow Control Under Low-Pressure Turbine Conditions Using Pulsed Jets US Naval Academy MD 01/30/2007 $93,000
Bons A Holistic Approach To Flow Control For Turbomachinery Blading: Endwall And Mid-Span Brigham Young University UT 01/30/2007 $90,000
Liscinsky Effect of Particle Sampling Technique and Transport on Particle Penetration at the High Temperature and Pressure Conditions found in Gas Turbine Combustors and Engines United Technologies Research Center CT 01/26/2007 $279,000
Simon Separation control using plasma actuators on low pressure turbine airfoils with passing wakes: experiments and modeling University of Minnesota MN 01/26/2007 $263,000
Lagoudas Multi-Scale Modeling and Characterization of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Multi-Functional Composites as New Lightweight, Durable Materials for Improved Subsonic, Fixed-Wing Vehicle Performance Texas Engineering Experiment Station TX 01/25/2007 $150,000
Dunn Fast Scattering Code Development Mark Dunn VA 01/24/2007 $315,000
Pitsch Detailed Modeling of Combustion Noise Using a Combined Large-Eddy Simulation/Computational Aeroacoustics Model Leland Stanford Junior University CA 01/22/2007 $350,000
Pitsch Integrated Large Eddy Simulation of Multi-Phase Turbulent Reacting Flows for Realistic Gas-Turbine Combustors Leland Stanford Junior University CA 01/22/2007 $354,000
Hussaini High-Fidelity Numerical Simulations in Airframe Aeroacoustics Florida State University FL 01/22/2007 $100,000
Davis Basic Studies for the Production and Upgrading of Fisher-Tropsch Synthesis Products to Fuels University Of Kentucky KY 01/22/2007 $481,000
Miles Plasma Actuators for Turbomachinery Flow Control Princeton University NJ 01/21/2007 $300,000
Gutmark POD and LSE Analysis of Simultaneous Measurements of Velocity Near Field Pressure, and Temperature Fluctuations in Coaxial High Subsonic Jet Flow University Of Cincinnati OH 01/21/2007 $226,000
Hussaini High-Fidelity Numerical Simulations in Jet Aeroacoustics with Application to Chevron Nozzles Florida State University FL 01/20/2007 $116,000
Simon Novel Nanoparticle-Filled Matrices for Thermal Stress Reduction in Polymer Matrix Composites: Multi-Scale Modeling and Experimental Validation Texas Tech University System TX 01/20/2007 $150,000
Wygnanski Quantitative Identification of Physics Based Parameters Governing Active Separation and Circulation Control on Wings University Of Arizona AZ 01/18/2007 $201,000
Sheplak IShear-Stress Sensor Array Measurement Technology for the Support of Turbulence Model Development for Flow Separation University Of Florida FL 01/03/2007 $153,000
Vander Wal Electron Microscopy, Spectroscopy and Chemical Analysis of Aircraft Engine Particulate (solid and volatile) for Complete Physical and Chemical Characterization Universities Space Research Association MD 01/03/2007 $128,000
Hershkowitz Dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators with novel geometries for subsonic flow modification: Experimental measurements with development and validation of a 2-D fluid model University Of Wisconsin System WI 01/03/2007 $168,000
Englar Circulation Control Aerodynamics for Very Efficient High-Lift and Cruise Performance of Subsonic/Transonic Air Vehicles Georgia Institute Of Technology GA 12/21/2006 $283,000
Modest LES Modeling of Spectral Multiphase Radiation and Turbulence/Chemistry/ Radiation Interactions in Reacting Turbulent Flow Pennsylvania State University PA 12/19/2006 $197,000
Durbin Turbulence Models for Flow Separation Iowa State University IA 12/04/2006 $115,000
Girimaji RANS and Variable-Resolution PANS Models for Separated Flows Texas Engineering Experiment Station TX 11/29/2006 $189,000
Karaman Thermomechanical Processing and Modeling of High Temperature SMAs for Multifunctional Engine Components Texas Engineering Experiment Station TX 11/27/2006 $149,000
Sung Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics of Conventional and Alternative Jet Fuels for Aeropropulsion Combustion Modeling Case Western Reserve University OH 11/21/2006 $149,000
Menon Subgrid Combustion Models for the Next Generation National Combustion Code Georgia Institute Of Technology GA 11/20/2006 $100,000




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