Cooperative Agreement FA70001920003

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $198,529 to the Florida Institute of Technology Inc. (Florida TECH) to conduct advanced numerical simulations and experiments on turbulent combustion in high-speed aerospace propulsion systems. The goal is to develop improved models and predictive capabilities for designing safer and more efficient scramjet and ramjet engines. The research integrates direct numerical simulations,...

This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Missouri System's Missouri University of Science & Technology to investigate compressibility effects on turbulence production in supersonic flows. The goal is to improve understanding of the mixing process in supersonic combustors for hypersonic flight applications. The project will utilize two-point focused laser differential interferometry to...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $454,850 Project Grant to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (doing business as Tees) to develop a BOUNDARY LAYER TURBULENCE SURFACE SENSOR ARRAY FOR HYPERSONIC FLIGHT AND GROUND TEST. The period of performance for this award under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) was from January 13, 2021 to January 12, 2022. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain...

This $1,300,000.00 Project Grant award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), supports research to establish an understanding and framework for passive manipulation of hypersonic flow and shock wave interactions with elastic metamaterial-based phononic subsurfaces (PSUBs) and porous surfaces. The goal is to reliably delay boundary layer laminar-to-turbulence transition and control turbulence. The University of Colorado...

This three-year, $299,999 National Science Foundation project grant in the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will develop a physics-inspired framework for turbulent flow simulations at the University of California, Irvine. The grantee will introduce the concept of physics-inspired coarsening to address challenges with large eddy simulation modeling, including inconsistent grid resolution and treatment of boundaries. Through direct numerical simulations and LES, the grantee will rigorously test...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Air Force under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $200,000 in funding to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop an "Airbreathing Hypersonic Engine Modeling Library for Morphing Engine Designs". The objective is to maintain technological superiority in areas relevant to Air Force needs and prevent technological surprise. The work will leverage...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for $259,701 aims to develop a novel hierarchical adjoint-based data assimilation framework to improve the accuracy and efficiency of turbulence flow modeling and prediction. The key products/services to be delivered include: Development of open-source software tools encapsulating the hierarchical adjoint-based data assimilation (HADA) framework, which will be made available to researchers...

This Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $1,200,000.00 in funding to The Johns Hopkins University for the "Center of Excellence in Assimilation of Flow Features in Compressible Reacting Flows" research project. The project aims to develop and demonstrate methodologies and tools for informing computational models of hypersonic systems with experimental data, focusing on data...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $112,951 Project Grant to the University of Puerto Rico under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports research on coherent structure assessment in high-speed crossflow jets. Specifically, the University of Puerto Rico will conduct numerical simulations and data analysis to complete two test cases by the end of year one involving turbulence precursor simulations for crossflow...

This $350,830 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research conducted by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The project aims to improve understanding of the internal structure and turbulence characteristics of buoyant flows, which are relevant to a wide range of engineering applications and natural phenomena. The key products of this research will include: 1)...