Project Grant 2149489
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to address the challenge of overheating in electronic devices by suppressing flow boiling instability in divergent microchannel heat sinks. The $199,999 project, awarded to the University of South Carolina, will utilize computational and experimental models to understand and mitigate vapor bubble disruption of liquid flow through microchannels, which can lead to...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $506,419 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, to conduct research on "Jumping-Bubble-Enhanced Pool Boiling on Rationally Microstructured Surfaces". The project aims to design microstructures that promote the spontaneous ejection of ultra-small micro-bubbles during boiling, in order to enhance heat transfer and delay the...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Arizona State University a $423,929 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a novel temperature visualization method that integrates laser-based diagnostic tools and deep learning techniques. The goal is to enable the measurement and understanding of temperature changes in boiling fluids over finned surfaces, which is critical for improving the energy efficiency of heat exchangers used in applications such as data...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $286,000.00 to Villanova University to advance the fundamental understanding and development of self-assembled multilayer microsphere particle arrays as engineered photonic structures for sustainable and energy-efficient radiative cooling. The research project aims to create new passive daytime radiative cooling technologies that can reduce the energy consumption and greenhouse gas...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $376,195 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The award will support research from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025 to develop two innovative models for predicting the effects of surface morphology on bubble nucleation and growth in micro/nano porous layers used for enhanced boiling surfaces....
- This $679,712 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a multidisciplinary research effort at the University of Maryland, College Park focused on developing a comprehensive computational and experimental framework for understanding and optimizing microemulsion boiling. The primary goal is to advance the science and engineering of microemulsion boiling to enable enhanced thermal management capabilities for emerging high-power...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under CFDA 47.041 - Engineering, with a project period from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2027. The grant, titled "EAGER: MACHINE LEARNING-DRIVEN PREDICTION OF TRANSITION TO ELONGATED BUBBLES FLOW REGIME", will support research to develop a novel machine learning model to predict the transition from small, separated bubbles to longer, stretched-out bubbles in microchannel flow boiling systems. This research aims to...
- This Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the "Engineering" program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Maryland, College Park. The $100,000 award, effective September 1, 2023, will fund a collaborative research project focused on developing an efficient and stable cooling solution for high power-density electronic devices through the use of partial flow-boiling processes with microstructured surfaces and ultrasonics. The key products and...
- The University of California Irvine received a $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems on May 15, 2021 to complete the project by April 30, 2024. The project, titled "LEARNING POOL BOILING PHYSICS WITH SCIENTIFIC MACHINE LEARNING," will be carried out under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The NSF Engineering program supports innovation, creativity, and excellence in...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $225,000 to Villanova University to conduct collaborative research on self-regulating artificial cilia arrays for precise fluid and particle manipulation. The research aims to develop soft, motile filaments that can autonomously adjust their movement to control fluids and suspended particles in three dimensions, with applications in medical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems totals $799,998 to fund research at Villanova University under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The university will study the fundamental aspects of liquid supply and boiling heat transfer affected by novel 3D-printed biomimetic surface structures. Researchers will design biomimetic structures using a leaf-vein growth algorithm and manufacture them through metal 3D printing. They will test liquid supply and boiling heat transfer performance as well as structure durability and resistance to fouling. The results aim to enhance understanding of biomimetic influences on boiling and inform development of next-generation commercial products for electronics and data center cooling. Outreach activities will engage underrepresented groups and the public in biomimetic structure design, manufacturing, and heat transfer testing. The research seeks to optimize boiling enhancements by examining liquid supply and bubble generation limits through modeling and experimentation.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $400.0k | 6/2/22 |