Project Grant 2230892
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $199,774 project grant to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to support research investigating instabilities in suspension flows. The award is part of NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) and will fund laboratory experiments and theoretical modeling examining suspension flows in structured channels from June 2022 to May 2024. Specifically, the research aims to apply proven techniques for characterizing instabilities in pure Newtonian fluids to...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $456,872 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Illinois to conduct research on the role of complex fluids in the flow and instabilities of particle-laden liquids. The project aims to improve the understanding of particle behavior and flow characteristics in complex fluid environments, with applications in areas such as microfluidic devices, inkjet printing, and enhanced oil recovery. The research combines...
- This $294,603 National Science Foundation project grant supports research and education activities related to dense suspensions. Specifically, the awardee will conduct collaborative research on the statistical mechanics and scaling theory of dense suspensions like cornstarch mixtures. Using simulations and experimental data analysis, the researchers will explore dynamical correlations, discontinuities in shear thickening and shear jamming transitions, and develop a continuum description of...
- This $269,703 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems supports research and education on dense suspensions under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). Specifically, the awardee Brandeis University will conduct collaborative research from February 1, 2023 to January 31, 2026 to develop understanding of microscopic correlations and macroscopic behavior in dense, shear-thickening suspensions. Using...
- This three-year $244,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund research into the stability and dispersion of viscoelastic flows through porous media. The awardee, Purdue University, will integrate microfluidic experiments and numerical simulations to determine the role of geometrical structure, disorder, and porosity on viscoelastic instability in two-dimensional porous media flows. They will also...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, provided under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program, seeks to develop an improved understanding of the behavior and flow properties of dense suspensions. The $273,720 award to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) will leverage computational simulations and mathematical network analysis techniques, such as persistent homology and k-core analysis, to characterize the...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research to quantify the effects of clay on fluid dynamics and turbulence development across a range of real-world conditions. The $349,943 award, spanning May 2025 to April 2028, will be executed by the University of Illinois. The project aims to systematically study how clay concentration alters the onset, structure, and evolution of turbulence in flows subjected to high-frequency...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $120,000.00 to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research on the "CAREER: CAPILLARY FLOWS OF PARTICULATE SUSPENSIONS." The project will characterize and model the role of interfaces in the dynamics of suspension flows, with a focus on understanding how solid particles can destabilize thin liquid films and impact the transport and deposition of...
- This $286,976 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Tufts University to quantify viscoelastic fluid flows through porous media and determine how microstructure affects macroscopic flow and transport properties. The NSF Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded the funding under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to study stability and dispersion of viscoelastic flows through porous materials. Key outcomes include establishing...
- This $600,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund collaborative research between the University of South Florida and Princeton University from July 2022 to June 2025. The research aims to establish a predictive theoretical understanding of nanoscale gradients in rheological response at interfaces in glass-forming fluids. Specifically, the grant will support experiments to observe fluid flow and deformation at the nanometer scale,...
This two-year, $400,138 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund research into instabilities in suspension flows. The University of Illinois will conduct laboratory experiments and apply existing theory to explore suspension flows in structured channels. Researchers will characterize the laminar steady state as a function of Reynolds number for specified particle sizes and volume fractions. They will then examine instabilities in both pure Newtonian fluids and suspension flows. The goal is to apply proven techniques for characterizing instabilities in pure fluids to gain breakthrough understanding of instabilities in suspension flows. Specifically, researchers will test the insight that structuring flow geometry can reveal well-separated, non-turbulent transitions arising from manipulable instabilities. Outcomes should lay foundations for future studies investigating new fluid physics when inertial particles are added to flows. Results may enable discovery of new methods to manipulate flows and particles. This project aligns with the National Science Foundation Engineering Directorate's goal of fostering innovation in engineering research.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $200.1k | 6/13/22 |