CFD Research offers testing & evaluation services at their research facilities in North Alabama. Test facilities include a 7000 ft2 high-bay engineering and test facility located in Scottsboro, AL, and a 4000 ft2 biomedical and energy laboratory located on the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology campus. We encourage customer participation in test design and analysis, and we design efficient test and evaluation programs to ensure that budgets are optimized.

A few examples are provided below that are demonstrative of the types of testing that can be performed at the CFD Research Test Facility.

Prime Power Generation

CFD Research designed and developed a Ram Air Turbine (RAT) for Prime Power Generation for the Navy’s Next Generation Jamming Pod program. CFD Research designed and built a full-scale, continuous-flow test capability and fabricated the air ducting that provided a high-quality air stream to the RAT test section.

AFRL Propulsion Directorate

CFD Research developed a Pintle Motor Test-bed to design, develop, test, and evaluate a variety of variable thrust solid rocket motor (SRM) designs. For the AFRL Propulsion Directorate, we have developed and tested prototypes using our Cold Flow Test Rig and Hot Fire Rocket Test Stand.

US Army Apache Program

CFD Research is working with rotorcraft turboshaft engine manufacturers and barrier filtration material developers to optimize the integration of these two technologies into a single system. Multiple configurations have been analytically and experimentally tested to establish the technical feasibility of a fully integrated Inlet Particle Separator (IPS) with a low-pressure drop barrier filter.

Cell & Tissue Engineering Core

Our laboratories perform research, development, test and evaluation work in applied microbiology, natural product synthesis, biosensors, biomaterials, synthetic biology, microfluidics and organ-on-chip systems.

Analytical Instrumentation Core

Our analytical instrumentation core facility is fully equipped with fluorescence microscopes for high-content and live-cell imaging, platforms for creating and analyzing human surrogates for biomechanical studies, and instrumentation for analysis of electrochemical or electro-optical assays.