Project Grant FA86552518023

This two-year, $220,000 National Science Foundation project grant will support the development of prompt molecular tagging velocimetry and thermometry techniques at The George Washington University. Funded through NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), this award reflects the Foundation's mission to advance fundamental engineering research. Specifically, the project aims to expand molecular tagging velocimetry to enable the direct measurement of turbulent heat fluxes at unprecedented spatial...

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 National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded $387,725 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station to enhance radiative energy tunneling with dielectric optical resonators and study its application in harvesting thermal energy within solids. Specifically, the award will support research to extend the useful range of near-field thermal radiation to micrometer-levels...

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...

High Energy Metals, Inc. received a $199,912 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to support research and development of explosively bonding corrosion resistant bimetallic materials for liquid-cooled, high temperature reactor systems. The award was made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports basic research to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) provides $400,204 to Purdue University to conduct an integrated molecular dynamics and machine learning investigation of gas-liquid interfaces in transcritical reacting flows. The project aims to improve the understanding of the underlying physics governing interfaces, phase changes, and molecular transport within high-pressure, transcritical fluid flows, which are critical for the efficiency of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $193,395 to the Regents of the University of Idaho to conduct research on the combustion kinetics of hydrogen-rich fuels such as hydrogen, methane, and ammonia. The project aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of the gas-phase and catalytic combustion processes of these fuel mixtures, which have the potential to enable more efficient and environmentally-friendly combustion...

This $600,000 National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry Project Grant supports research into elucidating exciton transport in hierarchical organic materials through time-resolved electronic and vibrational spectroscopy/microscopy. Led by researchers at Montana State University and the University of Miami, the award will fund investigation of energy transport in light-harvesting superstructures comprised of stacked aromatic dyes covalently bonded together with molecular tethers. By...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics and Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $474,996 collaborative research Project Grant to West Virginia University Research Corporation (WVURC) and the University of New Hampshire. The funding supports a study on "Energy Conversion Beyond the First Law of Thermodynamics in Non-Equilibrium Plasmas" under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). Through state-of-the-art...

This $171,593 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research to indirectly measure combustion reaction rates through laminar flame speed measurements. The NSF Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded this funding under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). California State University, Los Angeles will utilize a meso-scale diverging channel to measure laminar flame speeds of rich ethylene flames. These measurements taken at atmospheric...