ERC provides a wide variety of engineering, scientific, and technical support services to our DoD and NASA customers.
ERC senior staff engineers possess a wide variety of engineering skills that are critical to the development of next generation military and space systems. For example, ERC has a number of engineers with extensive computation fluid dynamics (CFD) backgrounds. ERC engineers engage in CFD activities such as maintaining and applying multi-dimensional CFD computer codes for both single phase and multiphase flow problems; performing post-test data analysis of solid rocket motor cold flow tests and analytically scale results to full scale flight motors; performing CFD analyses of selected test configurations/conditions to benchmark CFD codes; performing various flow analyses to investigate anomalies that are related to internal motor flow phenomena; and correlating data from cold flow tests, subscale hot fire motors and motor component tests to enable applications to full-scale motors.
As an example of our technical support, at Marshall Space Flight Center’s Calibration Laboratory, ERC technicians and engineers perform instrument calibration repair, standard maintenance and certification, and O&M of calibration systems. We also support the physical, mechanical and temperature sections of the laboratory. ERC has responsibility for engineering, quality, safety, pick-up and delivery, procedure development and all calibration. At Johnson Space Center, ERC personnel support the Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation Office, where we assist in their efforts to document, preserve, prepare, and distribute samples of Apollo lunar rocks and soils; meteorites from Antarctica; cosmic dust collected in the stratosphere; and solar wind samples.
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