Project Grant FA86552517022

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...

This federal Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $134,000.00 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct research on "Data-Driven Characterization and Control of Gust-Tolerant Flight of Super-Maneuverable Vehicles." The research, which runs from November 1, 2025 to October 31, 2029, aims to maintain technological superiority for the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $414,978.00 to The University of Akron to advance the understanding of fundamental mechanisms for separation control using tunable flexible materials. The research will focus on fluid-structure interactions, the generation of unsteady streamwise vortices, and the effect of these vortices on separating flow dynamics. This will be accomplished through high-fidelity simulations and closely...

This $450,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) funds a 3-year research program to develop adaptive flutter suppression technologies for aeroelastic wings using active aerodynamic distributed bleed control. The primary awardee, Georgia Tech Research Corporation, is collaborating with Earthly Dynamics, LLC, a woman-owned small business, to conduct detailed wind tunnel investigations and dynamic...

The University of Maryland, College Park received a $873,709 Project Grant award from the Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research to develop and demonstrate real-time control technologies for mitigating air vehicle gust response. The grant was awarded on March 1, 2022 under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) and runs through May 31, 2024. This program supports research with potential to improve naval operations and train future...

This $255,843 National Science Foundation project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will fund research and development of an integrated high lift propulsor to enable affordable and energy-efficient advanced air mobility aircraft designs. Wayfarer Aircraft Research and Development Inc. will conduct wind tunnel experiments and computational fluid dynamics simulations from August 2022 to July 2023 to characterize aerodynamic interactions between a propeller and wing...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to Princeton University under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop MEMS airflow sensors for model-based unmanned aerial vehicle control in extreme wind conditions. The three-year award running from October 2021 to October 2024 will support Princeton University's research and development of microelectromechanical systems-based airflow sensors to maintain Air...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by the University of Maryland, College Park to enhance pilot training through the development of methods for optimizing sensory-motor interactions. The goal is to reduce training duration and improve safety by leveraging secondary sensory cues, such as touch and audition, and insights into pilot neurophysiology. The research involves creating a pilot training...

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 three-year, $309,811 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology to develop techniques for improving the resilience of vision-guided unmanned aerial vehicles and other mobile robotic technologies against cyberattacks. The research aims to advance a framework for detecting and responding to stealthy attacks that simultaneously target mission planning, control, perception,...