CFD Research awarded Army contract to develop model order reduction-based solver for thermal signature analysis

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CFD Research has been awarded a $1M Army contract to further develop an innovative Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Machine Learning (ML) based computational tool for accurate and rapid prediction of transient turbulent flow, heat transfer and thermal signatures. The survivability of military vehicles and their occupants often depends on efficient control of their thermal infrared (IR) signature as IR emissions, stemming from the thermal load, of military vehicles are used to detect, track, and lock-on to the target. Thermal modeling is typically used in order to predict and achieve performance goals related to the control of IR signatures.

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.