Project Grant FA95502310030

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 $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 Project Grant award for $257,457 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences supports research by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to investigate three key problems in fluid mechanics. The overarching objective is to utilize a novel mathematical framework developed by the Principal Investigator to study the spatial intermittency of turbulent flows, which is critical for understanding phenomena like vortex structures in turbulence. The three...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA 47.041 (Engineering) provides $490,525.00 to The Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, to conduct research on stochastic modeling of turbulence over rough surfaces. The goal is to develop a new model that can accurately represent the velocity field and dynamics of near-surface turbulence, which is critical for applications like wind energy and pollution...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $268,436 project grant to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to investigate transport and mixing processes in turbulent boundary layers over ground-elevated surface roughness from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2026. Specifically, the award will support research and educational activities to develop new understanding of how spatial arrangements of ground-elevated surface roughness elements...

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 $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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Brigham Young University (BYU) to study the dynamics of cavitation bubbles near mixed solid-gaseous surfaces. The goal is to understand when and how these surfaces can repel cavitation bubbles, which can cause damage, vibrations, and noise in various industrial applications like valves, pumps, and turbines. The project will use high-speed photography to map the behaviors of laser-induced...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $274,932 will fund research at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University from July 2022 through June 2025 to understand interactions between hair-like microstructures and turbulent wall flows. The research will focus on characterizing the coupled dynamics between arrays of flexible micropillars and background turbulence using advanced multi-scale flow diagnostic tools. Insights gained from simultaneous measurements of micropillar motion and...

This $499,624 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Pittsburgh to develop physics-guided machine learning methods for turbulent flow simulation. Funded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the three-year award aims to advance computational fluid dynamics capabilities. Specifically, the university researchers will create a new deep learning model incorporating physical constraints to reconstruct...