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 better understand instability mechanisms in suspension flows containing inert particles. Outcomes are expected to lay the foundation for future studies investigating new fluid physics that arises when particles are added to flows, with the potential to discover new methods for manipulating flow and particle distributions.
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