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Lightweight Energy-Deposition IED Blast and Momentum Bypass/Mitigation

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N00014-13-C-0258
Agency Tracking Number: N121-081-0510
Amount: $500,000.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N121-081
Solicitation Number: 2012.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2012
Award Year: 2013
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2013-09-09
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2015-02-13
Small Business Information
1665 E. 18th Street, Suite 112
Tucson, AZ -
United States
DUNS: 058268652
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Kevin Kremeyer
 VP of Research
 (520) 903-2345
 kremeyer@physics-math.com
Business Contact
 Margaret Chiang
Title: Director of Advanced Prog
Phone: (310) 261-2075
Email: margaret.chiang@physics-math.com
Research Institution
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Abstract

The proposed effort will characterize the effect demonstrated in the preceding Phase I effort, in which energy was deposited in the air under a vehicle, in order to create low-density channels within the air. These low-density channels underneath the vehicle were demonstrated to preferentially guide high-pressure blast gases out from under the vehicle at high speed, thereby relieving the pressure under the vehicle and mitigating the upward force on it from said blast gases. In the proposed Phase II effort, we will experimentally investigate/demonstrate the effect we observed in our Phase I computational fluid dynamics effort. In addition to continuing our modeling effort, we will perform measurements to determine the degree to which the computational results capture the experimental dynamics. This will be accomplished through parametric studies, both computationally as well as experimentally, to the degree possible. For the proposed Phase II Option effort, we intend to add soil (sand), to determine its effect on the gas dynamics and our technique's ability to mitigate the effect of the blast gases under these circumstances.

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