This Project Grant award of $250,431.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) with a start date of December 1, 2024 and an end date of November 30, 2027. The award aims to elucidate the role of acoustic cavitation in enhancing the efficiency of ultrasound-based water-oil demulsification, which is an essential step in the oil production process. The research will focus on characterizing the mechanical...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Project Grant, under the Engineering (47.041) program, provides $354,541 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) from August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The funding supports research into using multi-frequency ultrasound wave fields to organize and orient particles dispersed in a fluid medium into specific, non-periodic patterns. The research aims to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $271,015 Project Grant to Princeton University from December 2021 through November 2024. The grant supports collaborative research to probe cavitation inception in dielectric liquids with sub-nanosecond precision under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). Specifically, the funding enables Princeton University researchers to investigate how bubbles form and collapse in...
This $460,353 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the dynamics of ultrafast cold cavitation in liquids at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey from March 2022 to February 2025. The grant is funded through NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to advance engineering research and education. Specifically, the grant will fund the development of advanced laser ablation and imaging techniques to induce and capture cavitation bubbles in water and diesel...
The National Science Foundation awarded North Carolina State University a $354,899 project grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for work titled "UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROLLING HYDRODYNAMIC CAVITATION TO IMPROVE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES INVOLVING HIGH VELOCITY FLUID FLOW." The grant period runs from March 1, 2021 through February 29, 2024. The university will conduct research to better understand and control hydrodynamic cavitation in an effort to improve manufacturing...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Brigham Young University (BYU) to study the dynamics of cavitation bubbles near mixed solid-gaseous surfaces. The goal is to understand when and how these surfaces can repel cavitation bubbles, which can cause damage, vibrations, and noise in various industrial applications like valves, pumps, and turbines. The project will use high-speed photography to map the behaviors of laser-induced...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $320,265 Project Grant to Iowa State University of Science and Technology to conduct research on acoustically activated colloidal filtration. This 3-year project under the NSF Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop experimentally validated models of cake layer formation and break-up at membrane interfaces due to acoustic field interactions. The research...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $179,909 Project Grant to Texas A&M University-Kingsville to support research probing cavitation inception in dielectric liquids with sub-nanosecond precision. This three-year award, made on December 15, 2021 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will allow the awardee to collaborate on improving understanding of cavitation inception in non-conducting liquids through...
This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to investigate the elastic properties of fluids confined in nanoporous materials and their impact on wave propagation. The project aims to develop a molecular theory to quantify the effects of fluid confinement on elastic properties like compressibility, and apply this to improve models of wave propagation in...
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...