CFD Research awarded Air Force contract for aeroelastic analysis of threat-damaged flight surfaces

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CFD Research Corporation announced today the award of a SBIR Phase II contract from the Air Force to create a novel, efficient, and accurate fully-coupled modeling approach for the aeroelastic analysis of threat-damaged flight surfaces. One of the key aircraft design requirements is aircraft survivability and vulnerability to damage caused by a variety of threat types. Damage which results in the physical removal of a portion of a wing or primary flight control surface undoubtedly leads to a reduction in aerodynamic performance and control degradation.

CFD Research awarded DTRA chemical warfare agent research contract

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CFD Research has received an award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to explore mechanisms, countermeasures and interventions for chemical warfare exposure. Chemical Warfare agents cause catastrophic medical disasters and have the ability to overwhelm any healthcare system. Extremely toxic, inexpensive and relatively easy to produce, these agents induce common cellular, molecular and inflammatory pathways resulting in acute inflammation, toxicity, and ultimately organ failure. CFD Research has a two-fold goal two-fold goal of identifying interventions nodes among the common inflammatory pathways while furthering identification of FDA approved drugs against these nodes. Known drugs will also be checked for their possibility in being a therapeutic target.