Project Grant 2607428
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) award, funded through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), supports a collaborative research effort at West Virginia University and the University of New Hampshire to study energy conversion in weakly collisional plasmas. The $256,012 project, with a period of performance from July 15, 2023 to June 30, 2026, will employ advanced simulation techniques and satellite data analysis to quantify how energy is transferred between electromagnetic fields and the...
- This Project Grant award, in the amount of $749,989, was provided by the National Science Foundation under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) to West Virginia University Research Corporation (WVURC). The award supports an experimental study of space-like plasmas in a laboratory setting, focused on investigating how energy is transferred from waves to particles in these plasmas. The research aims to improve understanding of space plasma phenomena and...
- This $449,995 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports a collaborative research project between Columbia University, West Virginia University, and New York University. The award will fund research to study how the three-dimensional structure of magnetic fields impacts the interactions between energetic particles and plasma waves, which are fundamental processes in space and laboratory plasmas. The project...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research project between Columbia University, West Virginia University, and New York University to study wave-particle interactions in 3D magnetic fields. The $350,077 award, granted on December 1, 2025, will run through November 30, 2028. The research aims to improve understanding of how energetic particles interact with waves in...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049), provides $242,547 to New York University (NYU) to study how the three-dimensional structure of magnetic fields impacts the interactions between energetic particles and plasma waves. The research collaboration between NYU, Columbia University, and West Virginia University aims to advance the fundamental understanding of wave-particle interactions, which...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports an experimental study of energy transport in collision-dominated ultracold plasmas. The $249,999 award to Brigham Young University will test portions of computer models used to predict transport processes in hot, dense plasmas by conducting precision laser measurements to create and analyze small-scale ultracold plasmas. This research aims to improve...
- 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, valued at $327,747, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support 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. This research will contribute...
- This $285,606 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports a computational study of energy distribution and dissipation in weakly collisional plasmas. The project will develop reduced plasma physics models and integrate them into an open-source simulation code applicable to astrophysics, space weather, and fusion energy research. Key project activities include leveraging novel machine...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports a joint research effort between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Texas at Austin. The $1,031,843 award, effective from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, aims to study the underlying physics of how a plasma responds to energy inputs and develop techniques to actively control the evolution of the plasma state and energy flow. The...
This Project Grant award, valued at $286,688.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The grant supports a collaborative research effort between West Virginia University and the University of New Hampshire to study energy conversion in weakly collisional plasmas. The goal is to better understand how energy is converted between electromagnetic fields and the thermal energy of plasmas, which is an important problem across many types of plasmas, including those used in space research and fusion energy development. The project will employ advanced particle-in-cell simulations and satellite data to investigate the dependence of thermal energy conversion on ambient plasma parameters, as well as examine particle acceleration and non-equilibrium dynamics. The research findings are expected to contribute to the understanding of energy conversion in solar flares and geomagnetic phenomena. The award began on December 1, 2025 and is scheduled for completion on June 30, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $286.7k | 11/21/25 |