Arizona State University received a $246,858 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems on June 1, 2021 to complete the project by May 31, 2024. The project aims to improve learning of convective heat transfer through mass transfer visualization under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA #47.041). The Engineering program seeks to foster innovation and excellence in engineering research and education to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $413,178 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The award will support research from April 2021 through March 2024 related to coating of rotating discrete objects. The NSF Directorate for Engineering seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research. This award will further those goals by advancing coating...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $154,871 project grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ACTUATING AND SENSING OBJECTS ON A FREE SURFACE." The grant was awarded on May 1, 2021 under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support innovation, creativity, and excellence in engineering research. Through this three-year project grant set to conclude on April 30, 2024, the University of Minnesota will conduct research...
The University of Minnesota was awarded a three-year, $335,337 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop mechanics-based algorithms for sampling, control, and learning in non-convex domains. The grant will support research from September 2021 through August 2024 to improve techniques for modeling and optimizing complex systems with non-smooth or discontinuous behaviors. As the NSF's Engineering directorate seeks to advance innovation and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $472,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, a non-profit 1862 land grant college, to develop a general framework for designing and analyzing decentralized and federated learning systems. The proposed work aims to unify various distributed algorithms and provide insights to streamline their design and analysis across a range of applications beyond machine learning, such as control...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota was awarded a three-year, $382,255 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support collaborative research between the University of Minnesota and other institutions to experimentally study and numerically model the fluid flow dynamics of beating eukaryotic flagella. Researchers will use optical microscopy and...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota was awarded a $495,872 Project Grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant funds a 4-year research project to study novel 1D line defects in perovskite oxide materials using advanced scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and density functional theory (DFT) analysis. The research aims to understand how factors like composition,...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a three-year, $348,253 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: TWO-WAY COUPLED FLUID/PARTICULATE TRANSPORT IN FRACTURED MEDIA - BRIDGING THE SCALES FROM MICROSCOPIC ORIGINS TO MACROSCOPIC NETWORKS." The research aims to strengthen fundamental understanding of integrated Earth systems through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $361,820 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The three-year award will fund research to develop computational methods for coordinating industrial process networks in a highly electrified chemical industry. Specifically, the university researchers will design new cooperative optimization and market mechanisms to facilitate demand response, provision of interruptible load, and...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $506,505 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure. The grant is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Under the award, the University will develop open-source tools for analyzing block polymer phase behavior...