This Project Grant award of $154,994 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research aimed at improving the understanding and predictive capability of pulsatile turbulent flows over rough surfaces. The 5-year project, awarded to the University of Mississippi, will conduct high-resolution numerical simulations, statistical analysis, and physics-based modeling to elucidate the complex flow physics associated with rapidly changing flows, like wind...
The National Science Foundation Division of Engineering Education and Centers awarded a $251,864 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University for collaborative research titled "Extreme Thermal Transport Events in Supersonic and Hypersonic Shock Wave-Turbulence Interactions." The award period runs from May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2024. The research is being conducted under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and...
This $299,990 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will support research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to improve understanding of chaotic fluid convection dynamics. The three-year award beginning April 1, 2022 will use dynamical systems theory and large-scale computing to study fluid dynamics in a shallow heated layer and...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to conduct fundamental research on the interaction of multiphase flows, such as liquid-gas flows, with complex engineered surfaces. The $446,443 award to the University of California, Berkeley will utilize highly repeatable jet impingement experiments to study the effects of surface roughness, hydrophobicity, and the presence of microscopic gas pockets on flow dynamics and boundary layer...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) provides $523,552 to the University of Texas at Austin to develop advanced computational models for simulating complex turbulent fluid flows. The research aims to create reliable, broadly applicable turbulence models for use in Large Eddy Simulation (LES) to enable more practical and accurate simulations across fields like aeronautics, propulsion, power generation, and wind energy. In...
This $326,187 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research into the complex dynamics of large spatially-extended systems with long-range interactions. Funded under the NSF Engineering Directorate's $47.041 million Engineering program, the three-year award to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University will advance understanding of nonlinear dynamics in systems of societal importance like the atmosphere, oceans, and distributed networks. Principal investigators will use...
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...
This Project Grant award of $180,000 from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University from July 1, 2021 through December 31, 2022. The research aims to unravel the spatiotemporal dynamics of three-phase contact lines on soft surfaces using transmission X-ray microscopy. This work aligns with the goals of the NSF Directorate for Engineering to foster...
This Project Grant award of $554,609 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development of a novel computational framework for simulating turbulent fluid flows past complex and deforming surfaces. The project, titled "CAREER: Consistent Immersed Boundary-Modeled Large Eddy Simulations for Flows with Complex and Deforming Surfaces", will combine numerical computation with turbulence models to enable accurate and computationally...
This $173,392 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research and training focused on developing predictive computational fluid dynamics models for flow control via anisotropic surface textures. The University of Mississippi awardee will collaborate with Stanford University's Center for Turbulence Research to generate unprecedented datasets of flows over movable microstructures and gain new understanding of nonlinear...