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Spinoff story

Software Performs Complex Design Analysis

A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.

About this technology

Overview

Optimal Solutions Software LLC, of Provo, Utah, and Idaho Falls, Idaho, creates highly innovative engineering design improvement products to enable engineers to more reliably, creatively, and economically design new products in high-value markets. The company entered into an SBIR contract with Stennis Space Center, under which it extensively used its arbitrary shape deformation software to improve pressure loss, velocity, and flow quality in the pipes utilized by NASA. The product is available under the trade name Sculptor.