Project Grant FA86551113044

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 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 $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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $349,999 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin to develop reliable Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models that can generalize to complex turbulent flows. The objective is to improve the predictive capabilities of computational fluid dynamics simulations, which have applications in aerospace, automotive, power generation, and wind energy sectors. The approach involves developing...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $284,393 project grant to Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) to conduct collaborative research on "Passive Laminar Flow Control via Phononic Subsurfaces". The project aims to reduce the fuel consumption of sea and air vehicles by maintaining laminar flow over the vehicle surface, which can significantly lower drag. The research will design and validate an array of phononic subsurfaces (PSUBS) -...

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 Project Grant award, valued at $387,488.00 and provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research at Wayne State University to develop a new, physics-based model that improves the accuracy of predicting droplet size distribution in air-blast atomization of liquid films. The research aims to better understand the complex bag-breakup mechanism that occurs during this process, which is crucial for applications such as power generation,...

This federal Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory provides $150,000.00 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to support a 3-year research project titled "FLUID-ABLATION INTERACTIONS IN HIGH-REYNOLDS NUMBER HYPERSONIC TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS." The award is funded under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which supports fundamental and applied scientific research to maintain technological superiority...

This $321,720 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to The Pennsylvania State University will fund a 3-year experimental research study to characterize the transition to turbulent flow in pulsatile pipe flows. The project aims to provide fundamental understanding of the pulsatile transitional flow regime and develop tools for estimating intermittency and transition progression. Key focus areas include investigating the effects of axial...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program grant awarded to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) aims to advance the understanding of air-sea interactions and wind stress over ocean waves. The $302,091 project, titled "Collaborative Research: Sea-State-Dependent Drag Parameterization Through Experiments and Data-Driven Modeling," runs from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2027. The research integrates high-resolution laboratory measurements with numerical simulations to...