99--TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY ADAPTIVE REFINEMENT TOOLS SOFTWARE FORREALTIME OF UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS IN NUMERICAL ANALYSIS

NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA solicits interest from companiesinterested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market thefollowing technology. License rights may be issued on an exclusive or nonexclusive basisand may include specific fields of use. THE TECHNOLOGY: NASA Langley engineers have developed a new software package for more facilecomputational fluid dynamics. The softwares fast user run time, robustness, andefficiency have enabled its extensive use in space shuttle modeling. Adaptive RefinementTool (ART) permits the computational modeling of flow, including jet or rocket plumes,wakes, and shocks via unstructured tetrahedral grids. Commercially available softwarepackages often struggle to sufficiently and quickly model such complex examples of flow.ART also allows cells to be divided into two, four, or eight cells as compared totraditional software, which allows cell division only in units of eight. This isadvantageous as it allows the user to control cell division more succinctly. ART executescommand via colloquial English and has built-in internal statistical programming thatincreases its ease of use. ART allows the user the choice of alternate variables such astemperature or pressure at will, which facilitates modeling unusual or unlikelyoccurrences.To express interest in this opportunity, please respond to Sean Sullivan, ResearchTriangle International (RTI), at: NASA Langley Research Center, Strategic RelationshipsOffice (SRSO), 17 West Taylor St., Mail Stop 218, Building 1212, Room 110 Hampton,Virginia, E-mail: [email protected], or phone: 757-864-5055. Please indicate thedate and title of the FBO notice and include your company and contact information.RTI is responsible for aggregating and acknowledging all responses. These responses areprovided to members of NASA Langleys Innovative Partnerships Office within the SRO forthe purpose of promoting public awareness of our technology products, and conductingpreliminary market research to determine public interest in and potential for futurelicensing opportunities. If direct licensing interest results from this posting, SRO willfollow the formal licensing process of posting in the Federal Register as required. Nofollow-on procurement is expected to result from responses to this Notice.