Project Grant FG0204ER54744

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 $265,965 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) supports research and development by Nearstar Fusion Inc., a for-profit organization, on a new approach to fusion energy for grid-based electric power. The project aims to perform computational modeling, analytical calculations, and design work to de-risk and establish a point design for a "hypervelocity gradient field fusion" concept. This...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics supports research to develop a high-density, axially homogeneous helicon plasma source for the AWAKE (Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment) project at CERN. The research aims to qualify the helicon plasma generation technology for application in next-generation particle accelerator systems, which could significantly reduce the size and cost of future linear accelerators...

This three-year, $148,578 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate under the CFDA 47.049 program will support the development of an open-source community code for multi-scale, multi-physics problems in astrophysics and gravitational physics. Specifically, the awardee Cornell University will complete development of the Elements code using discontinuous Galerkin methods and task-based parallelism to solve dynamical Einstein equations on...

This $450,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics will fund the development of machine learning-augmented density functional theory (DFT) tools to enable faster and more accurate quantum simulations of warm dense plasmas. Under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the University of Rochester will receive funding from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The project aims to advance finite-temperature exchange-correlation functionals...

This $167,231 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support the development of the Gkeyll software ecosystem for plasma science and space weather applications by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Gkeyll is an open-source, multi-fluid, multi-moment model that incorporates kinetic effects to describe weakly collisional plasma systems. It will be used to advance global simulations of space and laboratory plasmas and make these capabilities accessible to a broad user...

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...

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...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $206,500 Project Grant to Xelera Research LLC in Ithaca, NY to develop an "Improved Graphical User-Interface for Accelerator Modeling and Analysis in 2D and 3D". The grant, provided under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), will support the research and development of advanced software tools to enhance the visualization and analysis capabilities for particle accelerator modeling in both two and three...

The National Science Foundation awarded Avalanche Energy Designs Inc. a $274,890 Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant to characterize the fusion gain factor Q for their Orbitron micro-fusion reactor technology. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to use particle-in-cell code, experiments, and plasma loss mechanism analysis to optimize fusion gain factor modeling and enable mitigating solutions for future small-scale fusion reactor...