Project Grant 2128443

The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $458,858 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NEW PATHWAYS TO ENHANCED TURBULENCE AND MIXING VIA KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY TUBE AND KNOT DYNAMICS." The three-year award beginning November 1, 2021 will fund basic research into atmospheric dynamics and turbulence under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050)....

This National Science Foundation project grant totaling $539,588 will support research by Global Atmospheric Technologies And Sciences, Inc. to model new Kelvin-Helmholtz instability dynamics and their impacts on turbulence and mixing in the middle atmosphere. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the awardee will utilize high-resolution modeling and observational data to identify "tube and knot" instability processes thought to enhance eddy diffusion and constituent...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program Project Grant award, with a total funding of $438,734, supports a collaborative research effort to study the turbulence in the stratified layer at the air-water interface caused by waves and wind. The research will be conducted through a combination of controlled laboratory experiments and state-of-the-art numerical simulations, with the goal of improving the representation of the ocean surface boundary layer in Earth-system models....

This two-year, $400,138 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund research into instabilities in suspension flows. The University of Illinois will conduct laboratory experiments and apply existing theory to explore suspension flows in structured channels. Researchers will characterize the laminar steady state as a function of Reynolds number for specified particle sizes and volume fractions. They will...

This $339,994 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research to advance the fundamental theoretical understanding of wave turbulence in the atmosphere and oceans. The award to New York University (NYU) will fund a multi-pronged effort combining theory and numerical modeling in three key areas: 1) investigating how broadband wave spectra can emerge from monochromatic wave sources through interactions with mean...

This collaborative research project, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) and awarded to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on October 1, 2025, delivers fundamental research aimed at advancing understanding of turbulent processes within coupled air-sea boundary layers. With total obligated funding of $280,247 through September 30, 2028, the project combines high-resolution laboratory experiments, high-fidelity numerical simulations, and...

The National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program has awarded a $324,938 grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a 3-year project titled "Collaborative Research: On New Directions for the Derivation of Wave Kinetic Equations." The research aims to tackle foundational questions in wave turbulence theory through rigorous mathematical analysis, with the goal of advancing scientific knowledge and contributing new tools in both...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $550,000 Project Grant to the University of Rochester under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct a laboratory-based study of astrophysical plasma turbulence. The 3-year award supports a collaboration between the University of Rochester and the University of Oxford, known as the TDYNO (Turbulent Dynamo) project, which aims to recreate and model astrophysically relevant magnetized plasmas in the laboratory using...

This $138,732 National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences Project Grant supports research into instability, chaos, and mixing in stochastic fluid mechanics and related models at Tulane University from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The research aims to develop mathematical tools to rigorously prove exponential sensitivity to initial conditions for various fluid mechanics models in the presence of small noise, gaining new insights into the unstable nature of fluid motion and...

This $40,932 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines focuses on quantifying the effects of compressibility and large molar-mass ratios on gravitationally driven turbulent flows. The research aims to develop a deeper understanding of the complex multi-material fluid dynamics observed in high-tech applications like supersonic combustion, fusion, and astrophysics. The project will...