Project Grant FA23862414020

This Project Grant award of $414,978 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research at the University of Akron to advance the understanding of flow control mechanisms using tunable flexible materials. The research aims to develop new methods for mitigating flow separation over aircraft wings and turbine blades, which can lead to reduced lift and undesirable pressure fluctuations. Key aspects of the project include: (1) performing...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $292,738 to the University of Arizona to conduct research on the internal structure of leading-edge vortices and their relation to Kelvin-Helmholtz instability on swept-back wings. The goal is to develop a theoretical model to explain recent observations and explore potential flow control techniques using periodic excitation near the wing apex. The research will utilize a flat plate cranked...

This $1,300,000.00 Project Grant award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), supports research to establish an understanding and framework for passive manipulation of hypersonic flow and shock wave interactions with elastic metamaterial-based phononic subsurfaces (PSUBs) and porous surfaces. The goal is to reliably delay boundary layer laminar-to-turbulence transition and control turbulence. The University of Colorado...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) award of $192,283 to Northeastern University supports collaborative research to model the influence of turbulence on flow-induced instabilities of large flexible structures, with a focus on wind turbine blades. The research aims to develop a novel dynamic model for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) systems that accounts for the effects of turbulence on the onset and post-critical behavior of aeroelastic instabilities in...

This $272,400 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a collaborative research effort between the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to investigate and develop techniques for estimating and controlling gust-induced aerodynamic effects in energy and propulsion systems involving lifting surfaces. The key objectives of the 18-month project are to leverage prior research on unsteady aerodynamics to advance the...

Seaflight Technologies Inc. will develop novel aerodynamic circulation control technologies for electric aircraft wings through this $275,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant awarded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The one-year project will advance research and development of high-lift wing designs using electric jet circulation control to increase maximum lift coefficients and enable longer range for small electric aircraft. Computational...

This National Science Foundation award provides $267,114 to the University of California, Los Angeles through December 2025 to advance research on estimating and controlling gust-induced aerodynamics. The project aims to develop reinforcement learning techniques to mitigate the challenges posed by large-amplitude fluid disturbances, or gusts, encountered by energy and propulsion systems with lifting surfaces such as wind turbines, aircraft, and turbomachinery. Researchers will leverage prior...

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 Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research awarded a $248,800 Project Grant to Stichting Maritiem Research Instituut Nederland, operating as Marin, to support IN-FLIGHT TESTING AND CONTROL OF CAVITATION AND VENTILATION ON A SURFACE-PIERCING FOIL from June 25, 2021 through September 30, 2021. The grant supports applied scientific research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), which aims to improve naval operations through...

The University of New South Wales received a $131,289 project grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to conduct basic research titled "Data Driven Approaches for Unsteady Flow Control Over Dynamically Stalling Wings." The research supports the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) and its goals of maintaining technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs and preventing technological...