Project Grant 2531938
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to unify fragmented datasets in the combustion research community. The $299,925 award to Northeastern University will develop open-source, standardized databases for gas-phase chemical kinetics experiments and models, adhering to FAIR principles to promote accessibility and reuse. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) open...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a multiscale, physics-based, data-driven model for ammonia combustion. The $429,999 award, with a performance period from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2028, will fund research to identify and characterize previously undiscovered chemical pathways that impact engine performance predictions, and conduct targeted experimental measurements to validate and optimize the model for desired...
- This $291,690 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of software and computational tools to improve the generation of kinetic models for gas-phase chemical reactions. The project, awarded to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, aims to transform and scale the open-source AutoMech software suite to automate the creation of high-accuracy kinetic models from scratch...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $630,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) for a three-year period from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028. The grant will fund direct numerical simulations and statistical analysis to guide turbulent combustion closure modeling for applications in gas turbine engines, rocket engines, and industrial furnaces. The key objectives of the project are to: Uncover new relationships between...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $193,395 to the Regents of the University of Idaho to conduct research on the combustion kinetics of hydrogen-rich fuels such as hydrogen, methane, and ammonia. The project aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of the gas-phase and catalytic combustion processes of these fuel mixtures, which have the potential to enable more efficient and environmentally-friendly combustion...
- This $445,930 National Science Foundation project grant through the Engineering (47.041) program will fund the development of efficient methods to calibrate models for missing physics in simulations of complex turbulent reacting flows. The University of Notre Dame will optimize turbulence closures and develop an adjoint-based optimization method for canonical flows and a co-optimization framework leveraging adjoint and ensemble Kalman-based optimization for geometrically complex flows. The...
- This $250,000 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports computational modeling research to investigate the influence of wall quenching on emissions from partially cracked ammonia combustion. The research aims to develop predictive computational models that can be used to design optimized ammonia combustion systems with minimal pollutant emissions, which could have a significant impact on applications such as heavy-duty marine...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program will provide $555,000 to the University of Texas at Austin from August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2026. The primary objectives of the project are to: 1) Generate a comprehensive database on turbulence-chemistry interactions in turbulent flames of ammonia/hydrogen fuel blends through large-scale direct numerical...
- This National Science Foundation project grant of $318,990 will fund research at Marquette University from January 2023 through December 2025 to develop a state-of-the-art combustion simulation tool for modeling multicomponent fuel droplets in high-pressure engine environments. The tool aims to capture the impact of realistic fuel composition on soot formation with greater fidelity than existing surrogate approaches. As part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the research seeks to...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $330,130 to North Carolina State University (NC State) from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027 to develop new data-driven methodologies for modeling, analyzing, and controlling nonlinear chemical processes. The project aims to create innovative state-space models and machine learning-based techniques to: 1) reconstruct hidden process states from input/output data, 2) analyze...
This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) to Oregon State University aims to unify the combustion research community's fragmented datasets. The project will develop an open-source, standardized database for gas-phase chemical kinetics experiments and models, adhering to FAIR principles to promote accessibility and reuse. Key objectives include: 1) devising open data formats and growing an open database for gas-phase chemical kinetics experiments; 2) creating a database for kinetic models and parameters with standardized formats; 3) building an innovative data repository model based on distributed version control; 4) collecting publicly available experimental and modeling data to bootstrap the databases; and 5) proposing useful workflows and apps that leverage the database infrastructure. This 3-year project, running from September 2025 to August 2028, aims to steward open science in the field of gas-phase chemical kinetics, primarily combustion.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $300.0k | 8/15/25 |