This $250,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program, with a performance period from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026, will fund collaborative research by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to develop a new understanding of droplet breakup behavior under complex acceleration conditions.
The research will utilize a combination of experiments and simulations to examine droplet breakup processes, with the goal of creating an improved hydrodynamic instability-based model for predicting droplet breakup in high-speed applications such as hypersonic aircraft impacts and advanced propulsion systems. The outcomes of this work are expected to enable more accurate and efficient computer simulations of multiphase flow problems relevant to energy efficiency and national defense. The project will also engage both graduate and undergraduate students, training them in critical technical skills.
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