This Project Grant award for $350,830.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for a research project titled "Turbulent Buoyant Flows: From Discovering Their Internal Structures to Developing LES Models."
The primary objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) isolate the specific features that make turbulent buoyant flows different from regular turbulence, 2) develop a mathematical framework to relate turbulent buoyant flows to regular turbulence, and 3) derive reduced-order models for simulating turbulent buoyant flows. The research will leverage high-fidelity numerical simulations of controlled experiments spanning weak to buoyancy-dominated turbulence regimes. The resulting insights and models are expected to advance the understanding and predictive capabilities of turbulent buoyant flows across a wide range of engineering applications and natural phenomena.
No sub-awards are planned for this research project, which is scheduled to run from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027.
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