The National Science Foundation awarded Portland State University a $278,667 project grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct collaborative research from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2026. The university will investigate transport and mixing processes in turbulent boundary layers over ground-elevated surface roughness, such as flows over different types of surface roughness configurations. Researchers will utilize innovative large-eddy simulations and particle...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA 47.041 (Engineering) provides $490,525.00 to The Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, to conduct research on stochastic modeling of turbulence over rough surfaces. The goal is to develop a new model that can accurately represent the velocity field and dynamics of near-surface turbulence, which is critical for applications like wind energy and pollution...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) provides $523,552 to the University of Texas at Austin to develop advanced computational models for simulating complex turbulent fluid flows. The research aims to create reliable, broadly applicable turbulence models for use in Large Eddy Simulation (LES) to enable more practical and accurate simulations across fields like aeronautics, propulsion, power generation, and wind energy. In...
The University of Texas at Dallas received a $239,535 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on March 1, 2021 to support research titled "Asynchronous-Coupled Large-Eddy Simulation of Langmuir Turbulence and the Atmospheric Surface Layer." The research is being conducted under the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation and excellence. The three-year project ending February 29,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $447,008 five-year Project Grant under its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The grant will fund research to provide a comprehensive understanding and prediction of thermal transport across successive material interfaces, which is critical for improving the design of advanced electronics, thermal barrier coatings, thermoelectrics, and other technologies. Key research activities...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award in the amount of $353,715 will fund a collaborative research project to study the turbulence in the stratified layer at the air-water interface, as driven by waves and wind. The project will utilize a combination of controlled laboratory experiments and advanced numerical simulations (large-eddy simulations) to test the hypothesis that coupling between waves and wind-driven currents is necessary to...
The National Science Foundation awarded The Pennsylvania State University a $363,304 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The award will support research towards developing a universal roughness model for fluid flows over complex boundaries from June 15, 2022 to August 31, 2023. The research aims to establish a new computational framework based on space/time averaging of the Navier-Stokes equations to accurately model fluid flows over a wide range of rough...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $149,575 to the Colorado School of Mines to study the effects of compressibility and large density variations on buoyancy-driven turbulent mixing. The research aims to develop a deeper understanding of the flow physics in complex, multi-material turbulent flows observed in various high-tech applications such as supersonic combustion, fusion technologies, and astrophysics. The project...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program Project Grant award, with a total funding of $438,734, supports a collaborative research effort to study the turbulence in the stratified layer at the air-water interface caused by waves and wind. The research will be conducted through a combination of controlled laboratory experiments and state-of-the-art numerical simulations, with the goal of improving the representation of the ocean surface boundary layer in Earth-system models....
This $257,692 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to the University of Mississippi aims to advance the understanding of pulsatile turbulent flows over rough surfaces. The project will conduct high-resolution simulations to elucidate the detailed flow physics and develop new predictive modeling tools to improve real-time accuracy and off-design adaptability. The research will integrate comprehensive engagement initiatives...