Project Grant FG0206ER46268

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 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...

The University of New Mexico (UNM) received a three-year, $358,940 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to investigate the dynamics of interacting magnetized plasmas through laboratory experiments and computational modeling from June 2023 through May 2026. UNM will conduct controlled centimeter- and microsecond-scale experiments using a basic plasma science device to study the detailed plasma and magnetic...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $586,041 supports research at the University of Michigan from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The award will investigate the evolution of instabilities in plasma implosions driven by dynamic screw pinch compression. Researchers will evaluate competing theories computationally and experimentally regarding the roles of electrothermal instability, coronal plasma...

This National Science Foundation project grant award of $540,000 provides funding from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 to support research into relativistic plasmas under extreme conditions. The award is made under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding in these fields. Specifically, the principal investigator at Arizona State University will investigate the role of super-strong magnetic fields on observable...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a study of the impact different types of obstacles have on turbulent, magnetized plasma flow in a wind-tunnel laboratory experiment. The $475,490 award to Bryn Mawr College will fund an experiment using a coaxial plasma gun to launch turbulent magnetized plasma at high speeds down a vacuum chamber, with embedded obstacles that can be either solid objects or...

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 $850,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Colorado Boulder to advance understanding of particle acceleration in plasmas driven by lasers. Specifically, the three-year award will fund simulation and experimental studies of optical field ionization-generated plasma channels for particle acceleration using laser wakefield acceleration. Researchers will conduct accurate simulations of plasma channel formation, characterize generated...

The University of Nebraska was awarded a $480,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award will support research titled "HIGH FIDELITY FLUID-KINETIC HYBRID MODELING OF INTENSE, SHORT PULSE LASER PLASMA INTERACTIONS" from August 2021 through July 2024. The university will conduct research to advance understanding of major problems in plasma physics through developing...

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...