The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $454,034 Project Grant to Florida State University (FSU) under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The award supports FSU's research into "Compressibility Effects on Laminar Separation Bubbles Over Airfoils" over the period of September 30, 2023 to September 14, 2026. As a prestigious research institution, FSU has extensive experience conducting scientific research for the...
The U.S. Department of the Air Force awarded a $120,000 Project Grant under the Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to Instituto De Fisica De SAO Carlos, a foreign government educational institution and state-controlled institution of higher learning based in Brazil. The award supports research on femtosecond laser processing of diamond and L-threonine organic crystal for photonic applications. Key objectives include maintaining technological superiority in areas relevant to Air...
The University of Arizona was awarded a $271,017 Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will support the development of a system for experimental investigation of unsteady boundary layer transition and separation from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2022. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $112,951 Project Grant to the University of Puerto Rico under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports research on coherent structure assessment in high-speed crossflow jets. Specifically, the University of Puerto Rico will conduct numerical simulations and data analysis to complete two test cases by the end of year one involving turbulence precursor simulations for crossflow...
The federal Project Grant award, issued by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $156,000.00 in funding to the University of Montpellier in France. The award supports fundamental and applied scientific research in areas critical to national defense capabilities, with a focus on maintaining technological superiority for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. The research project, which runs...
The Department of the Air Force awarded a $144,772 project grant to National Cheng Kung University under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will fund basic research on transonic flutter of hypersonic skin-panels from September 30, 2021 through September 29, 2023. The Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force technological superiority by preventing technological surprise and creating it for adversaries through a strong research...
The U.S. Air Force awarded a $147,312 Project Grant to the Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to conduct research on "Gaseous Spinning Reactive Waves in Coaxial Geometry." The award has a performance period from June 15, 2025 to June 14, 2028. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program supports fundamental and applied scientific research across diverse domains to maintain technological...
This $297,576 Project Grant was awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Inc. The grant supports research on the "Response of Wall Turbulence to Large-Scale, Space-Time Perturbations" over a 3-year period from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. Embry-Riddle, a private university specializing in aviation and aerospace research, will conduct...
The University of Florida received a $185,910 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to support the development of a volumetric PIV system for investigation of flow field dynamics and their control. The grant was awarded on September 1, 2021 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), with completion scheduled for August 31, 2022. The Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain Air Force technological...
This 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 $125,000.00 in funding to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) in Australia. The award supports research on data-driven reduced order modeling and preliminary experimentation to investigate the combined effects of transonic buffet and freeplay-induced limit cycle oscillations. This research aims to...