Project Grant 2204900
- 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...
- This $361,736 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, aims to develop a comprehensive framework for manipulating droplets and bubbles during phase change to enhance heat transfer rates for thermal management applications. The research program at the University of Michigan has three principal objectives: 1) improving heat transfer in condensation and boiling by superposing gravity with tunable acoustic waves, 2) developing...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, awarded to Georgia TECH Research Corp, aims to develop a deep understanding of the behavior and interactions of novel multicomponent fluid mixtures for enhanced heat transfer in electronic and industrial systems. The $499,232 award, spanning from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will investigate the stability and properties of phase change material (PCM) particles suspended in liquid gallium alloys,...
- This $426,013 National Science Foundation project grant supports experimental research on nonequilibrium thermodynamics at the University of Texas at Dallas through July 2025. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the award will test the validity of the Onsager reciprocal relation under conditions that violate its foundational assumptions, such as large temperature differences qualifying as far-from-equilibrium. Researchers will explore the extent to which...
- This $332,768 National Science Foundation project grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund the development of a new hybrid pseudo-spectral adjoint algorithm and multidisciplinary design optimization framework at the University of Michigan from September 2022 through August 2025. The algorithm and framework aim to enable the gradient-based MDO of large-scale engineered systems governed by unsteady processes. Specifically, the project will combine time-accurate analysis and...
- 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...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems award, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $556,861 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to conduct research on fluid dynamics in confined geometries, specifically related to heat management in high-power electronic devices. The research aims to unravel the enigma of hydraulic jumps, a phenomenon observed in liquid flows, and understand how it may impact the...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award, totaling $560,000, will support research at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to develop new methods for investigating nanoscale thermal transport phenomena. The research will combine ultrafast optical measurement techniques with nanoscale spatial resolution to probe energy carriers, such as electrons and phonons, in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium regimes. The goal is to...
- This $383,762 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports a CAREER award at the University of Illinois focused on advancing nanoscale radiative heat transfer research. The four-year project, which commenced July 1, 2025 and concludes June 30, 2029, will deliver a novel experimental technique enabling the study of near-field radiative heat transfer...
- This $399,404 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program supports research to study the effects of parametric forcing on Marangoni flows in non-isothermal thin fluid layers, with the goal of enhancing heat transfer in materials processing and cooling of high-speed computational devices. The primary objectives are to determine how and when parametric forcing can prevent Marangoni flows and under what conditions it can lead to...
This three-year, $231,053 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into optimal flows for thermal transport at the University of Michigan under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The university will discover improved flows for enhancing thermal transport efficiency in fundamental areas through constrained optimization methods for partial differential equations. Researchers will extend existing steady-state and develop computational methods for optimal unsteady two-dimensional and three-dimensional flows in benchmark channel and open/closed domain geometries between hot and cold surfaces. They will also characterize optimal flows for localized "hot spots" in processor cooling. The grant provides research training for graduate students and research experiences for undergraduates, with outreach to middle and high school students. The work aims to identify effective flows and forcing mechanisms with potential applications in residential, commercial, and industrial thermal transport settings.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $231.1k | 7/7/22 |