Project Grant 2422919
- This $250,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research to investigate the motion and self-propulsion of "Marangoni surfers" on spherical liquid interfaces, such as levitating water droplets in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The primary objective is to establish a computational-experimental framework to study the complex interactions between active particle motion,...
- This $420,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research on the effects of microgravity conditions on crystal growth and particle self-assembly during directional solidification of solutions. The research aims to reveal the subtle forces involved in these processes when gravity is removed, and compare the structural features obtained in microgravity versus on Earth. The research will integrate experimental...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041), awarded a $342,479 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) to conduct collaborative research on "Probing Interfacial Instabilities in Flow Boiling and Condensation via Acoustic Signatures in Microgravity." This research aims to enhance the fundamental understanding of the transport mechanisms governing liquid-vapor interfacial instabilities in flow boiling and...
- This $320,000 federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports collaborative research between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and other institutions to study crystal growth and particle self-assembly during directional solidification in microgravity conditions on the International Space Station (ISS). The research aims to reveal the subtle forces involved in growing solvent crystals and forming particle assemblies, which...
- 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...
- 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 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 $238,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a collaborative research effort led by Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to advance thermal management solutions for microelectronics devices. The key objectives are to: 1) improve heat transfer rates in condensation and boiling by superimposing gravity with acoustic waves, 2) develop theoretical models for acoustically enhanced phase...
- This National Science Foundation project grant of $270,000 will fund research at the University of California, Berkeley from August 2022 to July 2026 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The research aims to study particle adsorption dynamics at fluid interfaces under microgravity conditions aboard the International Space Station. Specifically, the grant will support experiments to elucidate how particles attach to droplets in the absence of sedimentation effects and develop...
- This $600,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under CFDA Program 47.041 Engineering supports research to leverage light-matter interactions and the low-gravity space environment to develop new functional sensors. The project, titled "BRITE PIVOT: Leveraging Light-Matter Interactions to Create New Functional Sensors in Low-Gravity Space Environment," aims to investigate the effects of microgravity on the processing of nanocomposites and utilize this...
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 resonance. The proposed microgravity experiments on the International Space Station will validate theoretical predictions and isolate the physics of parametric-forcing dynamics without interference from buoyancy-driven convection. This research has potential applications in materials processing of thin films, additive manufacturing, micro-reactors, and micro heat pipes, with broader impacts on diverse scientific domains. No sub-awards are planned for this grant, which has an award date of July 1, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2028.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $399.4k | 8/2/24 |