Project Grant 80NSSC24K1879

This Project Grant award of $255,963 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to develop an immersion-cooled, 3D-printed stator technology for high-specific-power electric motors, specifically an interior permanent magnet synchronous motor. The research will establish a performance baseline using traditional motor windings with oil immersion cooling, demonstrate improved cooling with additively manufactured windings, and validate long-term...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will fund the development of a level-set-based, multi-physics and multi-material topology optimization software for electric machine design. The $550,000 award, made under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, will support work at Stony Brook University from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The software aims to improve electric generator and motor designs through parametric topology optimization of magnets. This will...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a magnetically integrated electric drive system with a rare-earth-free, brushless wound-field flux-switching (WFFS) motor. The $526,878 award, with a period of performance from October 1, 2024 to February 28, 2029, supports research to optimize the motor design, co-design the motor and inverter for high torque density and thermal performance, and accurately quantify motor and...

This $769,412 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to advance predictive digital twins of jet engines. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing high-fidelity multiphysics models for jet engine combustion and flow, as well as scalable reduced-order models with quantified uncertainties. Constructing models for particle-surface interactions to quantify erosion and...

This NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Project Grant award under CFDA 43.001 (Science) provides $166,563.00 to the Colorado School of Mines to design and validate a proof-of-concept for a megawatt-scale high-voltage multiphase dual-rotor generator (DRG) integrated with a multiphase passive rectifier. This DRG system is intended for a nuclear electric propulsion (NEP) system, where a nuclear reactor spins the DRG whose output is then rectified before connecting to the spacecraft's...

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 Project Grant award of $474,874 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research by The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to enable engineers to use small-scale models in lower-cost wind tunnels while capturing the full-scale behavior of rotating wakes. The research aims to validate the hypothesis that rotor thrust and induced power coefficient can sufficiently replicate vortex wake turbulence and stability across scales....

This $255,843 National Science Foundation project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will fund research and development of an integrated high lift propulsor to enable affordable and energy-efficient advanced air mobility aircraft designs. Wayfarer Aircraft Research and Development Inc. will conduct wind tunnel experiments and computational fluid dynamics simulations from August 2022 to July 2023 to characterize aerodynamic interactions between a propeller and wing...

This Project Grant award of $498,290 from the National Science Foundation's (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) program supports a collaborative research project led by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to develop advanced modeling and optimization methods for rotating detonation combustors (RDCs) coupled with highly diffusive mixers. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: A gradient-enhanced Bayesian deep...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund the development of new metallic materials for high-temperature applications critical to improving the efficiency of jet engines and turbines. The grant recipient, The Ohio State University, will work with collaborators at NASA Glenn Research Center, GE Aerospace, and the Air Force Research Laboratory to utilize a novel additive manufacturing approach to create oxide dispersion...