This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), is funding the development of novel computational methods for modeling astrophysical flows with self-gravity. The $189,999 award to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will support a collaborative research effort to design arbitrary-order discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods that preserve fundamental properties of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $365,000 to the University of Notre Dame to develop advanced numerical simulation methods for astrophysical and engineering applications. The key technical objectives are to: Create high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods that can accurately model magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, multi-group radiation hydrodynamics, and preserve angular momentum for...
This $120,000 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the CFDA program 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences, supports fundamental research on gravitational astrophysics and computational methods to advance scientific understanding of neutron stars, black holes, gravitational waves, and the large-scale structure of the universe. The award will fund a series of research projects at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) focused on developing new...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to enhance models of stellar astrophysics by simulating turbulent plasma flows within stars. The $365,771 award to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), spanning September 2024 to August 2027, will refine rotational mixing models to improve predictions of stellar evolution and mitigate the impacts of solar activity on Earth. The project will address...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $189,689 to the University of Oklahoma to conduct fundamental research on bifurcation and stability in rotating fluids and galactic structures. The research aims to advance the mathematical understanding of why and how elliptical galaxies and spiral arm formations emerge from circular distributions of stars, as well as study rotating neutron stars and binary star...
This Project Grant award of $559,057.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support research to compute accurate opacities for key atomic elements that dominate the physics of the solar interior. The project aims to resolve the "solar problem" by developing new computational methods and opacity calculations that can be applied to stellar astrophysics, asteroseismology, and exoplanet research. The work will be...
This $270,000 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, will support two research programs related to the mathematical theory of fluids, gases, and plasmas. The first program will examine non-uniqueness phenomena and instability in nonlinear partial differential equations, particularly those used in modeling incompressible fluid mechanics. The second program will investigate the structure of shock...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049), provides $284,000 to The Ohio State University from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The award will support research into non-perturbative analysis of physical and mathematical models, with a focus on developing methods to extract information from limited data with high accuracy and confidence outside the range of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $490,337 to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) from August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The primary objective of this project is to develop novel data-driven machine learning techniques to enhance the computational performance and accuracy of numerical simulations for modeling relativistic plasma flows in...
This Project Grant award for $150,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research in gravitational wave astrophysics. The research aims to solve Einstein's equations numerically using simulations run on NSF-funded supercomputers to study the inspiral and merger of binary neutron star systems and the associated gravitational waves. The results will increase understanding of gravitational wave...