Project Grant 2512309
- The University of Nebraska was awarded a $480,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award will support research titled "HIGH FIDELITY FLUID-KINETIC HYBRID MODELING OF INTENSE, SHORT PULSE LASER PLASMA INTERACTIONS" from August 2021 through July 2024. The university will conduct research to advance understanding of major problems in plasma physics through developing...
- This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), enables continued experimental exploration of eruptive plasma behavior in a laboratory setting. The $597,571 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027, supports research aimed at advancing the understanding of multi-scale phenomena in real plasmas. The project will focus on studying the observed X-ray generation in a magnetized,...
- This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), supports collaborative research between the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and the University of New Hampshire to study the global stability and relaxation of localized small-scale kinetic structures in collisionless magnetized plasmas. The $327,747 award, with a performance period from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, will...
- This $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at Princeton University to investigate interactions between structured laser light and plasmas. The university will use high-power elliptically polarized and vortex laser beams to produce plasma harmonics with tunable polarization states for the first time. Two- and three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations will compare to experimental results. The...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project between the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and the University of New Hampshire. The project aims to theoretically and computationally study the global stability and nonlinear relaxation of localized small-scale kinetic structures in collisionless magnetized plasmas. The $539,607 grant supports research that will contribute to...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a study on energetic electron trapping and acceleration in magnetized plasma. The $356,876 award, effective December 15, 2024, will investigate how energetic electrons get trapped, accelerated, and de-trapped in magnetized plasmas with magnetic islands and stochastic fields, both in space and in laboratory experiments. The research aims to provide...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $242,547 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to support a collaborative research project led by New York University (NYU). The goal of the project is to study how the three-dimensional structure of magnetic fields impacts the interactions between energetic particles and plasma waves, which is a fundamental process underlying various plasma phenomena. The research team, which also includes...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $535,314.00 to Brown University from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028. The project seeks to advance the mathematical analysis of plasma physics and rotating fluids, with a focus on understanding the asymptotic behavior of solutions to non-collisional kinetic equations and the stability of homogeneous equilibria for the Vlasov-Poisson system. The research aims to...
- The University of New Mexico (UNM) received a three-year, $358,940 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate the dynamics of interacting magnetized plasmas through laboratory experiments and computational modeling from June 2023 through May 2026. UNM will conduct controlled centimeter- and microsecond-scale experiments using a basic plasma science device to study the detailed plasma and magnetic...
- This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports collaborative research on microscale plasma processes in shock and turbulent environments. The $341,464 award to Columbia University, spanning August 2024 to July 2027, will focus on two key areas: 1) particle heating and acceleration in shocks, and 2) thermodynamics and transport driven by large-scale turbulence. The research aims to develop...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $1,031,843 to support a joint research effort between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Texas at Austin. The goal of the project is to develop techniques to actively control the evolution and energy flow of Vlasov plasma systems, which have applications ranging from high-energy physics and astrophysics to medicine and chemistry. The research aims to use linear theory to predict the short-term evolution of nonlinear plasma dynamics and apply external fields to steer the plasma state, potentially enabling the release of significant amounts of energy on demand. The 3-year project, running from September 2025 to August 2028, also includes an educational component to help renew the plasma science and engineering workforce.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.0m | 8/19/25 |