Project Grant DESC0004392

Summary Georgia TECH Research Corp received a CAREER award of $548,708 from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), with an award date of May 15, 2026 and completion date of April 30, 2031. The project will develop a unified multiscale Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) framework for predictive modeling of multiphase flows—specifically gas-liquid flows characterized by bubble, droplet,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program award of $175,000 will fund the development of an open-source, GPU-enabled computational fluid dynamics (CFD) framework at the University of Wyoming. The project aims to create advanced numerical methods and software for accurately and efficiently simulating fluid dynamics problems, with a focus on modeling compressible Navier Stokes equations using the high-order accurate discontinuous...

The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) received a $221,452 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support research titled "Enabling Next-Generation Heterogeneous Computing for Massively Parallel High-Order Compressible CFD." The award period was from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2022. The research was conducted under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The program aims to maintain Air...

Summary: Discrete Exterior Calculus Variational Integrator for Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities Simulation Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Incorporated (ORAU) received a $149,690.91 cooperative agreement award from the Research Development and Engineering Command (a Defense agency component) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to develop and apply a discrete exterior calculus variational integrator for simulating magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities. The award,...

Omega Hydrodynamics Research LLC received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation on January 15, 2022 to support development of a computational fluid dynamics tool through December 31, 2022. The tool aims to enable fast computation of turbulent flow over complex geometries under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program. This program seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in...

This $313,202 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a 5-year research project to model and analyze particle-laden fluid flows. The project involves developing novel mathematical models and computational methods to better understand the complex physics underlying particle-laden flows, which have important applications in industries like food processing, mining, and environmental remediation. Key...

This three-year, $504,413 Project Grant from the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) supports research at Florida State University to fuse experimental and computational data for the analysis of complex fluid flows. The awardee will employ a novel four-camera, four-pulse volumetric particle tracking system capable of accurate Lagrangian measurements to study turbulent boundary layers, wakes, unsteady...

This $170,913 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support the development of efficient numerical tools to model incompressible multiphase flows applied to magnetohydrodynamics. The principal investigator at the University of Houston will use theoretical and computational mathematics to analyze and develop high-order numerical methods for solving nonlinear partial differential equations governing fluid dynamics with...

The University of Pittsburgh was awarded a $225,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop adaptive time-stepping methods for coupled fluid-structure interaction problems from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The university will focus on creating monolithic and partitioned numerical methods using the recast Cauchy-one legged theta-like method for fluid-porous medium problems described by the Stokes-Darcy system,...

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...