This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports collaborative research to improve the understanding of the hydrodynamic instability mechanisms that govern the breakup of shock-driven liquid sheets into droplets. The $297,599 award to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) will fund detailed numerical simulations and detonation tube experiments to develop a "lifecycle" model describing the evolution of...
This $250,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program, with a performance period from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026, will fund collaborative research by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to develop a new understanding of droplet breakup behavior under complex acceleration conditions. The research will utilize a combination of experiments and simulations to examine droplet breakup processes, with the goal of creating an improved...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) project grant award of $306,449 to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) aims to significantly improve the understanding of droplet breakup under complex, variable accelerations. The project will use a combination of experiments and simulations to examine droplet breakup behavior and develop a hydrodynamic instability-based model that can be used to predict droplet breakup in a wide range of applications, such...
This $584,946 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) will support research at Northeastern University to develop an experimental platform that combines advanced diagnostic techniques to study the detailed dynamics as complex fluid droplets impact surfaces. The goal is to generate a systematic understanding of how the complex fluid properties and flow behavior are coupled during droplet impact events, which have broad applications in nature...
This two-year, $177,911 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at California Polytechnic State University to improve experiments exploring liquid sheet edge breakup and droplet formation. The university will give student groups the opportunity to develop new experimental equipment to investigate how micro-scale surface patterns influence the...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) in the amount of $199,000 will support research on the oscillatory dynamics of sessile droplets (droplets resting on solid surfaces) exposed to steady shear flow of surrounding air. The key goals of the project are to: (1) investigate how the interaction between drag force and surface tension affects droplet oscillations, and (2) determine the role of the surrounding pressure field in...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $197,785 Project Grant to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology under CFDA Program 47.041 - Engineering. The grant will fund a 2-year research project to investigate the dynamics and rupture of liquid bridges between particles using numerical simulations. The project aims to elucidate the behavior of liquid bridges undergoing extensional, shearing, or vibrational deformations, capturing the coupling between particles and fluid, as...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $290,000 Project Grant under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to conduct research on predicting, suppressing, and optimizing elastic instability in three engineering applications: bridge decks, piezoelectric energy harvesters, and aircraft/projectile paneling. The research will focus on analyzing partial differential equation models of flexible plates to...
This $347,379 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research on the transport, self-assembly, and deposition of suspended particles in evaporating colloidal droplets. The goal is to examine the motion of particles in drying droplets and link the particle transport to the final deposition patterns, with applications in areas like forensics, disease diagnostics, and biodetection. The research involves high-fidelity numerical...
This three-year $500,440 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to explore the dynamics of elastic sheets adsorbing at fluid-fluid interfaces. The research aims to understand the phenomena surrounding flexible filaments and sheets attaching to liquid surfaces, which has applications for using sheets to...