Project Grant N000141210429

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) received a $375,000 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to conduct an exploratory study of the decomposition and combustion process of ionically conducting gel and solid propellants. The award was made under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs and prevent...

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...

The Center For Collaborative Interdisciplinary Sciences, N.p.o. received a $224,660 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to conduct basic research for proposal 21IOA024 titled "Pressure, Ion Probe, and Flow-Visualization Measurements in Inside-Injector Rotating Detonation Engines." The research will be performed in Japan from April 2021 through April 2023 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The...

This $294,555 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, within the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund research at San Diego State University to develop neural network-based preconditioning methods to improve the computational efficiency of chemical property evaluations in reactive flow simulations. Specifically, the grantee will combine machine learning and adaptive tabulation approaches to more...

This $354,405 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Arizona State University aims to develop a modeling framework for large-eddy simulation of turbulent premixed flame in order to discover closure terms that describe combustion-induced energy backscatter. The research is expected to provide new subgrid-scale models that can accurately capture energy backscatter in turbulent premixed flame, which is critical for improving the...

This $40,932 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines focuses on quantifying the effects of compressibility and large molar-mass ratios on gravitationally driven turbulent flows. The research aims to develop a deeper understanding of the complex multi-material fluid dynamics observed in high-tech applications like supersonic combustion, fusion, and astrophysics. The project will...

The Purdue University was awarded a $201,175 Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to develop a Simultaneous and In-Situ Measurement System for the Thermal Decomposition of Energetics under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant period runs from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2023. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded Purdue University a Project Grant of $231,700 on July 1, 2023 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to develop "MULTI-MHZ COLOR IMAGING FOR IN-SITU CHARACTERIZATION OF COMBUSTIONS AND DETONATIONS IN ENERGETICS". This research is intended to help maintain technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to Air Force needs. Through this 1-year award, Purdue University will...

This $445,930 National Science Foundation project grant through the Engineering (47.041) program will fund the development of efficient methods to calibrate models for missing physics in simulations of complex turbulent reacting flows. The University of Notre Dame will optimize turbulence closures and develop an adjoint-based optimization method for canonical flows and a co-optimization framework leveraging adjoint and ensemble Kalman-based optimization for geometrically complex flows. The...

This $171,593 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research to indirectly measure combustion reaction rates through laminar flame speed measurements. The NSF Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded this funding under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). California State University, Los Angeles will utilize a meso-scale diverging channel to measure laminar flame speeds of rich ethylene flames. These measurements taken at atmospheric...