HYSONIC TECHNOLOGIES, LLC — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: N21A-T011
HYSONIC TECHNOLOGIES, LLC — STTR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
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- Obligated amount $139,893. Cross-check similar awards in the same agency and technology tags for going-rate context.
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- Amount
- $139,893
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Navy
- Program / Phase
- STTR · Phase I
- Topic
- N21A-T011
- Solicitation
- 21.A
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- IN
- Period
- 2021-06-07 → 2021-12-07
Description
HySonic Technologies, founded by Dr. Carlo Scalo, addresses this call by combining its capabilities in design of acoustically absorptive high-temperature materials with Dr. Carson Slabaugh’s (Purdue University) well-established expertise in designing and testing of Rotating Detonation Combustors (RDC) at various scales. HySonic’s history in the design of acoustically absorptive material relies on a previously awarded ONR SBIR Contract (N68335-19-C-0312) where acoustically absorptive high-temperature carbon-fiber ceramics have been already developed targeting the frequency range of 100 kHz – 300 kHz for hypersonic boundary layer control. In Phase 1 of the current effort, HySonic will design an acoustic benchtest apparatus, covering the 1kHz – 10kHz range (relevant for RDC applications), to assess the acoustic absorption spectrum of various candidate high-temperature resistant materials. The challenge lies in balancing the acoustic absorption performance - which requires surface and volumetric porosity - with thermal and structural resistivity, which requires a material that is densified as much as possible. The same materials will also be tested in the lab-scale (4” diameter) RDC already available in Dr. Slabaugh’s group to assess their survivability and acoustic absorption properties in a high heat flux / shear stress environment. Computational modeling at various levels of fidelity will also be attempted with the goal of reconciling the benchtest acoustic measurements with the lab-scale RDC results. If awarded Phase II, the HySonic/Purdue team will scale this effort to a large scale RDC rig (9” diameter) already available in Dr. Slabaugh’s group starting in the option phase, while simultaneously pursuing updated computational results.