The University of Arizona was awarded a $240,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The grant supports research on Nonlinearity, Randomness, and Dynamics: Vistas into the Extreme Mechanics of Non-Euclidean Sheets under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the nation's scientific...
The University of New Mexico (UNM) received a three-year, $358,940 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate the dynamics of interacting magnetized plasmas through laboratory experiments and computational modeling from June 2023 through May 2026. UNM will conduct controlled centimeter- and microsecond-scale experiments using a basic plasma science device to study the detailed plasma and magnetic...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $540,000 provides funding from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 to support research into relativistic plasmas under extreme conditions. The award is made under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Specifically, the principal investigator at Arizona State University will investigate the role of super-strong magnetic fields on observable...
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...
The University of Arizona was awarded a $334,752 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences. The grant falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) and will support research into novel methods for numerical simulation of wave propagation in inhomogeneous media from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The funding will allow the University of Arizona to develop new computational techniques for modeling how waves, such as...
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 Division of Mathematical Sciences provides $163,383 to the University of Arizona under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025. The award supports research on nonlinearity in reaction-diffusion and kinetic equations, with a focus on developing tools to understand the long-time behavior of several reaction-diffusion systems and the well-posedness theory of various collisional kinetic...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), enables continued experimental exploration of eruptive plasma behavior in a laboratory setting. The $597,571 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027, supports research aimed at advancing the understanding of multi-scale phenomena in real plasmas. The project will focus on studying the observed X-ray generation in a magnetized,...
The National Science Foundation awarded Columbia University a $419,433 project grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research to advance data-driven modeling approaches for magnetized plasmas through three key efforts. First, several emerging data decomposition methods will be applied to numerical simulations of magnetized plasmas for the first time and assessed for these systems. Second, data-driven nonlinear models based on these...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $187,593 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of Arizona, doing business as the Arizona Board of Regents. This 3-year effort, starting on August 1, 2024, seeks to develop novel modeling and simulation approaches for complex material systems. Key objectives include: Utilizing machine learning, mathematical techniques, and physical principles to construct models that provide more realistic...