MUDAWAR THERMAL SYSTEMS INC — National Aeronautics and Space Administration STTR Phase I: T14

MUDAWAR THERMAL SYSTEMS INC — STTR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Amount
$124,707
Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Program / Phase
STTR · Phase I
Topic
T14
Solicitation
STTR_21_P1
NAICS
Place of performance
IN
Period
2021-04-26 → 2022-01-19

Description

The proposed effort concerns technologies related to cryogenic propellant production, storage, transfer, and usage to support NASArsquo;s in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) goals.nbsp;nbsp;They include a broad range of applications, scales, and environments consistent with future NASA missions to the Moon and Mars.nbsp;nbsp;More specifically, this project will address development of a piecewise-smooth set of correlations for use in lumped node codes to facilitate prediction of the entire cryogenic pool boiling curve (local wall heat flux versus wall-to-fluid temperature difference) encountered in cryogenic storage and transfer systems.nbsp;nbsp;For the Phase I study, focus will be placed on developing a model for critical heat flux (CHF) for both quenching and heating configurations, which will be validated against databases for LHe, LH2, Ar, LN2, LO2, and LCH4.nbsp;nbsp;