Project Grant DESC0025480

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $904,240 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Rochester to support an effort to understand the complexities of turbulence in high energy density plasmas. The 3-year project, running from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, aims to characterize plasma turbulence across different scales using advanced interferometry and imaging diagnostics at the university's HADES pulsed power facility....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $550,000 Project Grant to the University of Rochester under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to conduct a laboratory-based study of astrophysical plasma turbulence. The 3-year award supports a collaboration between the University of Rochester and the University of Oxford, known as the TDYNO (Turbulent Dynamo) project, which aims to recreate and model astrophysically relevant magnetized plasmas in the laboratory using...

This $276,489 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a research program at Cornell University to study the physics of turbulent plasma in a laboratory setting. The research will use an imploding carbon wire-array Z-pinch driven by a new pulsed-power generator to generate magnetized plasma turbulence in a highly collisional regime. Advanced diagnostics will be used to characterize the transition from...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $296,787 supports research at Clemson University from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The university will conduct experimental investigations and numerical simulations to improve understanding of turbulent mixing processes in combustion. Researchers will analyze physical-space scalar structure and unresolved mixing using the recently developed self-conditioned fields approach to...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a study of the impact different types of obstacles make on turbulent, magnetized plasma flow in a wind-tunnel laboratory experiment. The $475,490 award to Bryn Mawr College, effective from April 15, 2025 through March 31, 2028, will fund an experiment using a coaxial plasma gun to launch a turbulent magnetized plasma flow down a vacuum chamber. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $589,888 to the Space Science Institute (SSI) to conduct a series of laboratory experiments to better understand wave-wave interaction processes that may control imbalanced solar wind turbulence at ion scales. Specifically, the project will investigate the behavior of two interactions between co-propagating Alfvén waves: a novel interaction driven by Hall physics, and the dispersive...

This $850,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Colorado Boulder to advance understanding of particle acceleration in plasmas driven by lasers. Specifically, the three-year award will fund simulation and experimental studies of optical field ionization-generated plasma channels for particle acceleration using laser wakefield acceleration. Researchers will conduct accurate simulations of plasma channel formation, characterize generated...

This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Missouri System's Missouri University of Science & Technology to investigate compressibility effects on turbulence production in supersonic flows. The goal is to improve understanding of the mixing process in supersonic combustors for hypersonic flight applications. The project will utilize two-point focused laser differential interferometry to...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $454,850 Project Grant to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (doing business as Tees) to develop a BOUNDARY LAYER TURBULENCE SURFACE SENSOR ARRAY FOR HYPERSONIC FLIGHT AND GROUND TEST. The period of performance for this award under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) was from January 13, 2021 to January 12, 2022. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain...

This $900,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports research to develop and study diffractive plasma optics for spatiotemporal control and contrast improvement of high-power and high-energy laser beams. The primary awardee, The Trustees of Princeton University, will collaborate with two sub-awardees, Stanford University and the University of Rochester, to conduct computational and experimental...