Cooperative Agreement FC0201ER54649

This $220,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant awarded to the University of Washington aims to develop ultra-efficient deterministic numerical methods for multiscale kinetic plasma simulations. The primary objective is to address key challenges in simulating plasmas governed by the Boltzmann equation, including high dimensionality, complex collision operators, and inherent multiscale behaviors. The research will focus on employing...

The University of Nebraska was awarded a $480,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award will support research titled "HIGH FIDELITY FLUID-KINETIC HYBRID MODELING OF INTENSE, SHORT PULSE LASER PLASMA INTERACTIONS" from August 2021 through July 2024. The university will conduct research to advance understanding of major problems in plasma physics through developing...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $134,481 to Saint Michael's College for theoretical development of reduced plasma kinetic models that allow simultaneous treatment of charged particles and electromagnetic fields. The award supports derivation of new theoretical structures for reduced plasma models, including gyrokinetic plasma models, that preserve exact conservation properties and enable...

This $850,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Colorado Boulder to advance understanding of particle acceleration in plasmas driven by lasers. Specifically, the three-year award will fund simulation and experimental studies of optical field ionization-generated plasma channels for particle acceleration using laser wakefield acceleration. Researchers will conduct accurate simulations of plasma channel formation, characterize generated...

This $450,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics will fund the development of machine learning-augmented density functional theory (DFT) tools to enable faster and more accurate quantum simulations of warm dense plasmas. Under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the University of Rochester will receive funding from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The project aims to advance finite-temperature exchange-correlation functionals...

This $270,000 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, will support two research programs related to the mathematical theory of fluids, gases, and plasmas. The first program will examine non-uniqueness phenomena and instability in nonlinear partial differential equations, particularly those used in modeling incompressible fluid mechanics. The second program will investigate the structure of shock...

This $640,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports fundamental research into using plasma waves to generate high-intensity, tunable light sources. The primary objectives are to design innovative plasma structures capable of manipulating laser light in both spatial and temporal domains, and to explore the possibility of an all-optical source of extreme ultraviolet (XUV) light in plasma waves. The...

This $399,924 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support research to study the wavelength dependence of plasma collision dynamics and ionization mechanisms in laser-solid matter interactions. The primary awardee, The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, will experimentally and theoretically investigate how the driving laser's wavelength, intensity, and pulse duration impact...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, totaling $704,826, supports research into many-particle systems with singular interactions at New York University from June 2023 through May 2026. The research focuses on rigorously deriving effective laws and theories for collective behavior in systems of particles interacting with singular forces like the Coulomb force. Specific aims include obtaining convergence results for...

This $285,606 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports a computational study of energy distribution and dissipation in weakly collisional plasmas. The project will develop reduced plasma physics models and integrate them into an open-source simulation code applicable to astrophysics, space weather, and fusion energy research. Key project activities include leveraging novel machine...