IllinoisRocstar LLC Example Simulation Work

Vorticity structure (vorticity magnitude is imaged) from preliminary simulation results shows fine structure in heated plume downstream of 10:1 elliptical stack.

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Preliminary simulation results of heated plume isotherms in crossflow. Horizontal cut 0.25 m above stack exit.

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Preliminary simulation results of heated plume isotherms in crossflow. Vertical cut at centerline of simulation domain.

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News Briefs

                        
January 2010, IllinoisRocstar LLC has been notified of award of Phase I STTR contract with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) entitled "High-Fidelity Multiphysics Simulations of Nozzle Erosion."

December 2009, IllinoisRocstar LLC has been notified of award of Phase I SBIR contract with the U.S. Army entitled "Behavior of Minimum Signature Propellants During Impact Tests on Insensitive Munitions."

November 2009, IllinoisRocstar LLC has been notified of award of Phase I STTR contract with NASA entitled "Efficient Quantification of Uncertainties in Complex Computer Code Results."

September 2009, IllinoisRocstar LLC took delivery of a 256-core Intel Nahelem-based compute cluster.

June 2009, IllinoisRocstar LLC has been awarded a Phase II SBIR contract with the U.S. Army entitled "Experimental and Computational Program for Slow and Fast Cookoff for Insensitive Munitions Testing."

June 2009, IllinoisRocstar LLC has been awarded a Phase II STTR contract with the U.S. Air Force entitled "Novel Alternative Energetic Propellants for Space Propulsion". 

March 2009, IllinoisRocstar LLC has been notified of award of Phase I SBIR contract with the U.S. Army entitled "Investigation of Supersonic and Hypersonic Missile Interceptor Base Flows Using an Advanced Computational Framework."

November 2008, IllinoisRocstar LLC has been notified of award of Phase I SBIR contract with NASA entitled "High-Fidelity Simulation of Turbofan Noise."

November 2008, IllinoisRocstar LLC has been awarded a simulation task contract with ATK, Thiokol Propulsion Corp. in Brigham City, UT.

September 2008, IllinoisRocstar LLC has been notified of award of Phase I SBIR contract with the U.S. Army entitled "Experimental and Computational Program for Slow and Fast Cookoff for Insensitive Munitions Testing."

August, 2008, IllinoisRocstar LLC has been notified of award of a Phase II contract with the U.S. Navy to continue work on Modeling Heated Jets in Crossflow. 

July 2008, IllinoisRocstar LLC has been notified of award of Phase I SBIR contract with the U.S. OSD/Air Force entitled "SRM Propellant Reconstruction from High Resolution Tomography."

July, 2008, IllinoisRocstar LLC has been notified of award of Phase I STTR contract with the U.S. Air Force entitled "Dynamic Behavior of Nano-Sized Particles in Novel Energetic Materials for Space Propulsion."

April, 2008, IllinoisRocstar LLC has been invited to submit a Phase II proposal with the U.S. Navy to continue work on Modeling Heated Jets in Crossflow. 

March, 2008, IllinoisRocstar LLC has been awarded a Phase I option contract with the U.S. Navy to continue work on Modeling Heated Jets in Crossflow. 

July 2007, IllinoisRocstar LLC has been awarded a Phase I STTR contract with the U.S. Navy entitled "Experimental and Computational Investigation of Nozzles in a Crosswind Environment" to perform modeling and validation of heated plume flows from elevated jets in crossflow. Validation experiments will be performed by the Aeronautical Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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