Project Grant 2440056

Award Date 8/1/24
Completion Date 12/31/28
Dollars Obligated $414K
Federal Grant Program
47.041
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Atlanta, GA 30318, USA

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) project grant of $413,931 awarded to Georgia TECH Research Corp will fund research to pioneer a new "multiphysics synthesis" design paradigm for electric machines (EMs) that leverages tensorial analysis. The overarching goal is to enable guided exploration of the multiphysics design space for EMs, which are critical components in applications like electric vehicles, wind turbines, and industrial processes. Key objectives include: 1) using primitive EMs expressed in hyperdimensional space as starting points to derive new EM topologies, 2) embodying the hyperdimensional EM models in 3D space for performance evaluation and optimization, and 3) generalizing these methodologies to incorporate physics beyond electrodynamics to achieve true multiphysics synthesis. Tensorial analysis from mathematics and physics will be applied throughout. The award also includes an education component focused on developing diverse multiphysics designers, including underrepresented groups, through a website-based learning platform, K-12 to graduate-level educational techniques, and an open-access EM design course. No sub-awards are planned under this 4.5-year project, which began on Aug 1, 2024.

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