Project Grant FA95502510152

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $450,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910) to the Trustees of Indiana University for the EXCURSION: Expeditionary Carbon Utilization for Energy Resilience and Stabilization project. The project aims to develop innovative solutions for carbon utilization and energy resilience, with a focus on performing density functional theory (DFT) calculations, using machine learning to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to better understand and predict the phenomenon of boundary layer flashback in turbulent lean hydrogen flames. The $412,791 award to the University of Utah aims to enable a new modeling paradigm for boundary layer flashback that allows for general, accurate, and affordable prediction of its occurrence. The research will involve direct numerical simulations to understand the...

This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics supports an effort to develop a comprehensive database of plasma photoionization processes with practical applications in fields such as combustion and high-speed aerodynamics. The "ECLIPSE: EXPLORING PHYSICS OF MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION USING THOMSON COHERENT MICROWAVE SCATTERING" project will utilize a novel Thomson in-phase coherent microwave scattering (TMS) technique to precisely...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research on the combustion behavior of new sustainable and environmentally friendly fuels, including ammonia and dimethyl ether (DME) blends. The $345,000 award to Wayne State University aims to investigate the "autoignition-assisted flame regime" of these fuel mixtures, focusing on...

This $157,232 National Science Foundation project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund the development of a unified numerical model for bubble nucleation and growth in volcanic systems. Lafayette College will work with international collaborators to conduct targeted experiments and develop theoretically grounded formulations to capture homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation processes. Researchers will also create an ensemble bubble growth model to track evolving bubble...

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) was awarded a $450,000.00 Cooperative Agreement by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Research and Technology Development program (CFDA 12.910). The grant, titled "Expeditionary Carbon Utilization for Energy Resilience and Stabilization (EXCURSION)", aims to develop advanced simulation capabilities using machine learning to model interactions at the nanoscale within the terahertz portion of the...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded Purdue University a $220,090 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to acquire a hybrid rheometer-dynamic mechanical analyzer for multipurpose characterization of energetic materials. The award began on July 15, 2023 and is scheduled for completion on July 14, 2024. The acquired equipment will enable Purdue University to provide advanced materials characterization...

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...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $299,817 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to support the research project "YIP, PICARD-CHEBYSHEV METHODS FOR LONG DURATION PROPAGATION IN CHAOTIC DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS". The grant period of performance is from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027. The project aims to develop advanced computational methods for long-term propagation of chaotic dynamical systems, which is...

The National Science Foundation awarded a three-year, $242,677 Project Grant to the Illinois Institute of Technology under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports collaborative research between Illinois Institute of Technology and two other institutions to develop computational models of morphological instabilities in reactive fluids driven from equilibrium. The researchers will establish frameworks to model non-equilibrium phenomena, design algorithms...