Whether providing energy through combustion as fuel, sustaining life as drinking water, or transferring force in hydraulics, fluid handling is an enabling technology across disciplines. FTL has proven expertise in fluid dynamics, contamination monitoring, control, and system design for all fluid types.
FTL personnel began working with industrial fluid design in the 1990’s, developing a laser-based contamination monitoring system deployed aboard Navy nuclear aircraft carriers. Since that time, technologies have developed rapidly to allow particle-by-particle AI evaluation of contaminants in flow.
Working with droplets led to applications of bubbles and other mixed-phase flow, in both medical settings, diagnosing decompression sickness, and at large scale, using bubbles to sweep shipping channels. Work with fluids continues to develop with spectroscopic, machine learning, and semantic computing approaches to sensing and characterizing liquids in many settings.
The links below provide a glimpse into a small subset of fluid-related programs FTL has completed.
Unmanned Surface Vessels (USV’s) are anticipated to play an important role in future Naval systems. These vary from very small systems deployed by hand from boats, to very large vessels, as large as a manned battleship, but operated entirely remotely.
FTL has extensive experience developing payload systems for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) including extensive fluid modeling of the flow and mixed-phase environment surrounding a moving submarine.
Electroseptic is a remote monitoring system developed for wastewater management in Department of Defense facilities. It uses sensor-based telemetry and real-time data analytics to detect septic system failures early, improving environmental safety and reducing maintenance costs.
FTL’s Fiber Sensor is an optical, field-capable, free-water detection and quantification instrument to be used initially in commercial and military aviation refueling environments.
This contamination detection system was developed to identify and analyze fluid-fluid interactions in critical aerospace systems. Using advanced sensors and automated diagnostics, it enables early detection of cross-contamination events to prevent system failure and ensure mission continuity.
HemoSight is a novel, robust, high-throughput, low-sample-volume device that measures blood clot contraction dynamics, provides portability and ease-of-use, and facilitates rapid decision-making, while integrating seamlessly into existing clinical and research settings.
The M1 Ingested Dust Sensor is a diagnostic tool developed for military aviation to detect particulate contamination in engine airflows. It provides real-time monitoring and data logging to improve maintenance forecasting and prevent performance degradation in harsh environments.
OilEye is a real-time fuel monitoring system developed to detect contamination and performance issues in military aircraft. It combines sensor data with predictive analytics to enhance maintenance efficiency and reduce the risk of in-flight engine failures.
The “SpOilEye” system (Spectral Protection OilEye) extends FTL Labs Corporation’s portable fluid analysis device capabilities, adding spectroscopic analysis to predict age-related oil spoilage, thereby minimizing product replacement due to thermal, physical, chemical and oxidative stressors.
Simulated wave visualization (SWAV) is a software application that transforms meteorological and oceanographic (MetOcean) data into realistic, statistically accurate wave animations. It generates coastal wave scenes based on offshore boundary conditions provided by the user or imported from global wave models.
WHAM (Weighted Heuristic Analyzer Monitor) is a portable system developed to monitor water quality in remote and field environments. It provides rapid, on-site detection of contaminants to support environmental safety and compliance for military operations.
