Project Grant 2532987

This $250,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program on August 15, 2025 to The University Corporation, a non-profit auxiliary organization affiliated with California State University, Northridge. The grant supports fundamental and applied research to improve the accuracy, reliability, and efficiency of predictive models for turbulent fluid flow systems, which are critical for applications such as energy security, aerodynamics, biophysical systems, spacecraft reentry, and weather prediction. The project employs data assimilation techniques to combine physical laws with real-world data, with the goal of advancing scientific understanding and training a new generation of students to tackle real-world problems at the intersection of theory, computation, and data. The research builds on the Principal Investigator's previous work in data assimilation and turbulence modeling, with the ultimate goal of improving the ability to accurately predict complex, chaotic turbulent flows across a wide range of scientific and engineering domains.