Center for Flow Physics and Control FlowPAC

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Center for Flow Physics and Control (FlowPAC)
Hessert Laboratory for Aerospace Research
www.nd.edu/flowpac
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Built on ND Generations
Painting depicting Albert Zahms First
experimentation with a manned glider (c. 1888).
Albert Zahm
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ND Generations
(c. 1940)
Noted for
First Supersonic Wind Tunnel For Use in Smoke
Flow Visualization
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ND Generations FlowPAC
2005
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Research Mission

• Develop techniques for modifying
• fluid flows to achieve a desired
• outcome in technologically important
• applications.
• Build upon flow physics.
• Industry Partner Consortium involving
• multi-year agreement that enables
• responsive research involvement with
• Industry.
• -Present Partners
• Boeing, Bell Helicopter,
• Orbital Research, Honeywell,
• GEAE.

Large Velocity Fluctuations
Modified Minimum Fluctuations
Noise Source
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Research Areas
Control
Num. Simul.
Experiment
Modeling
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Multi-disciplinary Group
21 Faculty 40 Grad. Students 5 Post-docs
Sound
Flow Physics
Research Faculty
1 Beginning 1/06
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Business Model

• Maintain and expand if possible core one and
  two-PI
• research activities. (i )
• Leverage off core activities to develop larger
  multi-PI,
• multi-disciplinary research activities
  (MURI) (h ).
• Promote Industry Partnerships that opens
  opportunities
• for multi-M grants (DARPA) (hh )..

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FY05 Research Proposals
Govt. Core Programs (6.1) Air Force
AFOSR DARPA NSF NASA-Glenn
NASA-Langley Navy Total 2.8M (57)
Industry Partner Programs (6.1/6.2) Bell
Helicopter Boeing-SVS Boeing-HEL DARPA/Bell
Helicopter General Electric Honeywell Innovative
Science Solutions1 - STTR II Intellite ITAC1
STTR II Philip-Morris Orbital Research1 two
SBIR IIs Total 2.2M (43)
Grand Total 4.9M Pending 6.3M
1Small Business
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Industry Partners

• Industry Partner Consortium Agreement
• - Partner min. requirement 100K/year
  funding to
• Center.
• - Return 50 of overhead, capped at 300K.
• Principle source of discretionary
  budget
• Funds Consortium Research
• Present Partners

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Center Trajectory

• 3 YR Growth in
• - number of active grants
• - amount of funding
• - number of graduate students/post-docs

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Emphasis On New Facilities
Approach Build facilities that fit between
those that are typical of universities, and
those typical of government labs that can
simulate application conditions. Advantage
Improve risk to transition flow control
approaches to real applications.
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Advanced Performance Gas-Turbine Laboratory

• Transonic Compressor Facility
• - 0.5M
• - 400hp, 15K rpm, Prog. Magnetic Bearings
• - Blade row design by Pratt Whitney

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Advanced Performance Gas-Turbine Laboratory

• Transonic Turbine Facility

• 1.9M

• Blade row to be
• design by WPAFB

Comp. (805 hp)
Motor (500hp, 5250rpm)
Turb. (300hp)
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3x 3 Mach 0.5 Wind Tunnel

• - 3M
• Airborne Platform Laser Research
  (secure p-t-p
• free-space communication).
• Seeking 2M/yr Aero-optics Center
  of Excellence

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Singular Existing Facilities

• Anechoic Open-jet Wind Tunnel

• Tri-sonic
• Jet Facility

• Tri-sonic Wind Tunnels

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Patents
High-speed Wave- front Sensor STTR-Phase III,
Patent Applied
SDBD Plasma Actuator Patent Applied
Plasma Probe STTR-Phase III Patent Applied
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Plans Year 5
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• First Industry Partner Meeting.
• - Tentative for Nov. to coincide with
  home
• football game (ND Corp. Development
  help).
• Bring number of Industry Partners to 6.
• Submit proposal for NSF University/Industry
  Center.
• Proposal for Aero-optics Center of Excellence.
• Broaden base of funding (Wind Energy,
  Automotive).
• Develop strong CFD counterpart that melds with
  experiments.
• Continue to look for opportunities to expand
  Graduate Student and Laboratory Space.

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1st FlowPAC Industry Partners Mtg.
Agenda

• Focus on capabilities less on details.
• Provide a broad knowledge of our activities.
• Obtain input from Partners on present and future
  research directions.
• Let Partners get to know each other.

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• Revolutionary concepts are possible with flow
  control.