This $173,392 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research and training focused on developing predictive computational fluid dynamics models for flow control via anisotropic surface textures. The University of Mississippi awardee will collaborate with Stanford University's Center for Turbulence Research to generate unprecedented datasets of flows over movable microstructures and gain new understanding of nonlinear...
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 Project Grant award for $257,457 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences supports research by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to investigate three key problems in fluid mechanics. The overarching objective is to utilize a novel mathematical framework developed by the Principal Investigator to study the spatial intermittency of turbulent flows, which is critical for understanding phenomena like vortex structures in turbulence. The three...
This $204,884 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) supports research by Towson University to study various subgrid scale turbulence models and their connections to the Navier-Stokes equations. The research aims to explore the mathematical properties of these turbulence models, apply data assimilation algorithms, and leverage deep learning methods for parameter estimation. Key focus areas include...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $499,993 to the University of Massachusetts to investigate fluid-structure interactions (FSI) between flexible structures and inertial-viscoelastic flow. The goal is to conduct numerical simulations and synergistic experiments to understand the influence of viscoelasticity on the dynamics of flexible structures like flags, sheets, and cantilevered beams in high-Reynolds number flows....
This $120,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at the University of Georgia to develop nonlinear control and observer designs for flow-transport systems. The three-year award beginning August 15, 2022 will fund the investigation of feedback control approaches to understand mass transport, fluid mixing, and their asymptotic behaviors in flow advection. The research aims to advance knowledge of...
This Project Grant award of $154,994 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research aimed at improving the understanding and predictive capability of pulsatile turbulent flows over rough surfaces. The 5-year project, awarded to the University of Mississippi, will conduct high-resolution numerical simulations, statistical analysis, and physics-based modeling to elucidate the complex flow physics associated with rapidly changing flows, like wind...
The University of Maryland, College Park will receive $340,000 from the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct research on the regularity and stability analysis of free-boundary problems in fluid dynamics from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The project focuses on mathematical models commonly used in fluid dynamics applications involving dynamic, evolving boundaries between fluid domains. The university researchers will study...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $161,282 to Clemson University to develop novel mathematical methodologies and approximation theories for analyzing coupled fluid-structure interaction systems. The research aims to establish existence and uniqueness of solutions, ascertain qualitative solution behavior, and provide implementable numerical approximation schemes for multilayered fluid-structure...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $290,000 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to conduct research on predicting, suppressing, and optimizing elastic instability in three engineering applications: bridge decks, piezoelectric energy harvesters, and aircraft/projectile paneling. The research will focus on analyzing partial differential equation models of flexible plates to...