Project Grant FA23862614004

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 $2,016,301 Project Grant award from the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) supports research and development of an advanced flow-independent fuel injector for naval propulsion. The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees, Office of Research, is conducting this 3-year project to develop innovative technologies that can improve the performance and efficiency of naval propulsion systems. The...

This Project Grant award from the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR), under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), provides $169,890.50 to The Ohio State University to conduct research on "ACTIVE FLOW AND ACOUSTICS CONTROL IN SUPERSONIC JETS USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE." The research project aims to develop innovative approaches to controlling flow and acoustics in supersonic jets using artificial intelligence techniques. This award,...

The University of Akron received a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop coherent coolant jet and nozzle manufacturing technology for grinding applications. The award period is from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. Under the grant, the University will utilize computational fluid dynamics modeling and 3D printing to design and manufacture nozzles and conditioners capable of delivering a long, coherent...

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...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems award, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $556,861 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to conduct research on fluid dynamics in confined geometries, specifically related to heat management in high-power electronic devices. The research aims to unravel the enigma of hydraulic jumps, a phenomenon observed in liquid flows, and understand how it may impact the...

This two-year, $400,138 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund research into instabilities in suspension flows. The University of Illinois will conduct laboratory experiments and apply existing theory to explore suspension flows in structured channels. Researchers will characterize the laminar steady state as a function of Reynolds number for specified particle sizes and volume fractions. They will...

This $173,392 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research and training focused on developing predictive computational fluid dynamics models for flow control via anisotropic surface textures. The University of Mississippi awardee will collaborate with Stanford University's Center for Turbulence Research to generate unprecedented datasets of flows over movable microstructures and gain new understanding of nonlinear...

This $499,999 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Tennessee Space Institute to develop an in-depth understanding of ammonia sprays and combustion behavior under elevated pressures up to 80 bar. The grantee will combine laser diagnostics and numerical simulations to study non-vaporizing, vaporizing, and reacting spray conditions. Advanced laser diagnostics including 2D Raman, PLIF and rainbow reflectometry will provide unprecedented flow,...

The U.S. Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to New Mexico State University (NMSU) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300). The grant supports an "Experimental Study of Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics of a Supersonic Impinging Oscillating Jet" project, with a performance period from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026. NMSU, a research-focused Hispanic-serving institution, will conduct this...