This $199,990 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a research study to develop a simple method for quantifying soot production rates of relevant fuels. The study aims to establish opposed jet gaseous diffusion flames doped with common jet and diesel fuel components, measure soot volume fraction through pyrometry, and numerically simulate the flame structure to accurately quantify soot production rates. The goal is to create a...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $199,993 Project Grant under its Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to The University Corporation, a non-profit organization located in Northridge, California. The grant supports research to understand the effects of flame curvature and stretch on combustion and soot formation characteristics. The project will develop novel experimental combustion configurations and simplified theoretical models to analyze these phenomena, which are important for...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $318,990 will fund research at Marquette University from January 2023 through December 2025 to develop a state-of-the-art combustion simulation tool for modeling multicomponent fuel droplets in high-pressure engine environments. The tool aims to capture the impact of realistic fuel composition on soot formation with greater fidelity than existing surrogate approaches. As part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the research seeks to...
This $354,405 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Arizona State University aims to develop a modeling framework for large-eddy simulation of turbulent premixed flame in order to discover closure terms that describe combustion-induced energy backscatter. The research is expected to provide new subgrid-scale models that can accurately capture energy backscatter in turbulent premixed flame, which is critical for improving the...
This $294,555 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, within the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at San Diego State University to develop neural network-based preconditioning methods to improve the computational efficiency of chemical property evaluations in reactive flow simulations. Specifically, the grantee will combine machine learning and adaptive tabulation approaches to more...
This $200,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of new diagnostic tools and combustion models for carbon-free fuels through the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program. Funded from February 2022 through January 2024, the University of Texas at San Antonio will perform high-pressure absorption spectroscopy of ammonia combustion gases using an optical gas cell and shock tube. Thermodynamic models will predict absorbance spectra at temperatures and pressures relevant to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA program 47.041 (Engineering) provides funding of $200,222 to the University of Connecticut to quantify soot production rates from common jet and diesel fuel components. The 3-year project aims to establish opposed jet gaseous diffusion flames doped with pre-vaporized fuel components and measure soot volume fraction through pyrometry. Numerical simulations will complement the experimental work to accurately describe the flame...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $197,643 Project Grant to San Diego State University Research Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The grant will fund research from January 2022 through December 2023 to develop techniques for making high-temperature alloyed components by combining additive manufacturing and spark plasma sintering. Specifically, the grant aims to enable greater complexity in component shapes while also predicting microstructures. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $383,716 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado to improve understanding and predictive modeling of soot formation in wildfires. The 3-year project under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will utilize advanced experimental techniques to investigate the chemical precursors and growth mechanisms for soot particles emitted from the pyrolysis and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $329,999 project grant to the University of Missouri System under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to examine inorganic particle formation in plasma-assisted combustion from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. Specifically, the grantee and sub-awardee, University of Miami, will conduct research to: (1) examine inorganic particle formation in plasma-assisted combustion; (2) deconvolute the kinetic, thermal, and hydrodynamic effects of plasma on particle...