Potential NASA commercial applications include the NASA led lunar and Mars lander development projects. Human class Mars lander plume-surface analysis is provided to propulsive Entry, Descent, Landing and Ascent (EDL&A) systems integration teams under the Evolvable Mars Campaign (EMC). Lunar lander developments include the NASA led Lunar Pallet Lander and industry lunar landers by Masten, Astrobotic, and Blue Origin which benefit from NASA technical support through the CATALYST program.
Potential non-NASA applications include a wide range of sand and dust related military and civilian applications such as rotorcraft sand/dust brownout and engine dust ingestion. In addition, multiphase flows occur in many applications in chemical, petro-chemical and fossil-energy conversion industries where accurate modeling of particle shape play a huge role in the flow behavior of real particulate systems.
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