Project Grant FA95502510052

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award, funded through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), supports a collaborative research effort at West Virginia University and the University of New Hampshire to study energy conversion in weakly collisional plasmas. The $256,012 project, with a period of performance from July 15, 2023 to June 30, 2026, will employ advanced simulation techniques and satellite data analysis to quantify how energy is transferred between electromagnetic fields and the...

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 three-year, $345,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support collaborative research between the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and Marquette University to advance understanding of novel plasma physics processes in antimatter experiments. The researchers will develop new kinetic theory and molecular dynamics simulations to study electron and positron compression, antiproton cooling, and mixing/recombination of antiprotons...

This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program, supports collaborative research on microscale plasma processes in shock and turbulent environments. The $341,464 award to Columbia University, spanning August 2024 to July 2027, will focus on two key areas: 1) particle heating and acceleration in shocks, and 2) thermodynamics and transport driven by large-scale turbulence. The research aims to develop...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics Project Grant award of $340,000 supports collaborative research between Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison to advance the understanding of microscale plasma processes in shock and turbulent environments. The project aims to develop physics-based models of kinetic, non-equilibrium processes in astrophysical plasmas, focusing on particle heating/acceleration in shocks and thermodynamics/transport driven by...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $134,481 to Saint Michael's College for theoretical development of reduced plasma kinetic models that allow simultaneous treatment of charged particles and electromagnetic fields. The award supports derivation of new theoretical structures for reduced plasma models, including gyrokinetic plasma models, that preserve exact conservation properties and enable...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics, totaling $1,093,132, will support the development of multiscale modeling and particle-in-cell simulation techniques to optimize plasma-based magnetron sputtering devices. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), this award to The Regents of the University of Colorado from July 2022 to June 2025 aims to advance clean energy and electronics manufacturing technologies....

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), enables continued experimental exploration of eruptive plasma behavior in a laboratory setting. The $597,571 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027, supports research aimed at advancing the understanding of multi-scale phenomena in real plasmas. The project will focus on studying the observed X-ray generation in a magnetized,...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $275,000 supports research studying microwave-plasma interactions at solid interfaces using microwave microstrip architectures. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the award runs from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The State University of New York at Buffalo and Texas Tech University will collaborate to design microwave stripline and microstrip structures tailored to different plasma conditions....

Radiasoft LLC was awarded a $202,034 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to develop conformal mapping techniques for high-speed simulations of structure wakefield accelerators. The grant is part of the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports basic research to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. Under the...