The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $200,000 Project Grant under the Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) to Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (Act) to conduct collaborative research on understanding thermal transport across a condensing film by performing experiments in microgravity conditions on the International Space Station. The research aims to better characterize the impact of gravity on the liquid-vapor interfacial behavior and its effect on thermal transport during the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $238,000 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) aims to develop a comprehensive framework to enhance heat transfer rates for thermal management applications through acoustically-assisted condensation and boiling. The key objectives are: 1) improving heat transfer in dropwise condensation and pool boiling by combining gravity with acoustic waves, 2) developing...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will provide $240,000 to fund research at the University of South Carolina on transient behavior of flow condensation and its impacts on condensation rate. The research objectives are to systematically characterize transient behaviors of flow condensation in both ground and microgravity environments, understand how different two-phase flow patterns...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award, totaling $920,715, aims to elucidate the roles of gravity on the freezing dynamics of sessile drops in the presence of soluble and insoluble particles. The research will be conducted at the University of Illinois and involve several key tasks: fabricating samples and solutions for experiments on the International Space Station (ISS), coordinating with NASA to prepare the experimental rig, overseeing...
This $399,404 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program supports research to study the effects of parametric forcing on Marangoni flows in non-isothermal thin fluid layers, with the goal of enhancing heat transfer in materials processing and cooling of high-speed computational devices. The primary objectives are to determine how and when parametric forcing can prevent Marangoni flows and under what conditions it can lead to...
This Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the "Engineering" program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Maryland, College Park. The $100,000 award, effective September 1, 2023, will fund a collaborative research project focused on developing an efficient and stable cooling solution for high power-density electronic devices through the use of partial flow-boiling processes with microstructured surfaces and ultrasonics. The key products and...
This federal Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $199,998 to Case Western Reserve University to conduct collaborative research aimed at understanding the impact of gravity on the condensation process. The goal is to utilize the International Space Station's Condensation Module to isolate the effects of gravity and characterize how interfacial waviness and turbulence impact thermal transport during condensation. The research team will supplement...
This $361,736 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research at the University of Michigan to develop an acoustophoretic approach for improving heat transfer and thermal management in microelectronics devices. The key objectives are: 1) enhancing heat transfer rates in condensation and boiling by superimposing gravity with acoustic waves, 2) developing theoretical models for acoustically enhanced phase change...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to understand the physical mechanisms of segregation during capillary flow of molten metallic alloys under microgravity and terrestrial conditions. The $108,237 award to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation will fund a series of experiments on the International Space Station, along with parallel ground-based experiments and detailed...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems award, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $556,861 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to conduct research on fluid dynamics in confined geometries, specifically related to heat management in high-power electronic devices. The research aims to unravel the enigma of hydraulic jumps, a phenomenon observed in liquid flows, and understand how it may impact the...