Current Research Contracts

Flight experiments on laminarization of swept-wing boundary layers using periodically distributed roughness elements,
Universal Technology Corp (Prime sponsor Air Force Research Laboratory - AFRL), PI: William Saric, 3 graduate students, 1/Jun/05 – 19/May/06, $341,388. 100% Saric, 100% external.

Flight experiments on local and global effects of surface roughness on 2-D and 3-D boundary-layer stability and transition,
AFOSR/NA, PI: William Saric, 3 graduate students, 1/Jan/05 --30/Sep/07, $905,070. 100% Saric, 100% external.

Acquisition and installation of the Saric/Klebanoff Low-Turbulence Unsteady Wind Tunnel,
DURIP/AFOSR, PI: William Saric, 1 graduate student, 1 May 05 --30 April 06, $93,692. 100% Saric, 100% external.

MURI (04) Hypersonic Transition and Turbulence etc.,
AFOSR, PI. S. Girimaji, ½ graduate student, 1 May 05 --30 April 06, $305,560 added to existing MURI for installation of the Saric/Klebanoff Wind Tunnel. 100% Saric, 100% external.

Swept-wing laminar flow wind-tunnel test,
Northrop-Grumman Corporation, PI: William Saric, 3 graduate students, 15 Jun 05 --30 Sep 05, $33,546. 100% Saric, 100% external.

Airborne Sampling in Texas of Ozone and Precursors,
Univ. Texas – Austin, PI: William Saric (82%), Co-PI: Don Collins (18%),15 Aug 05 – 31 Aug 06, $88,519. (a three-part contract that is continuing).

REMS Flight Test,
General Electric, PI: William Saric (100%), 1 Dec 05 – 31 Dec 05, $27,851, 100% external.