Project Grant N000141912238

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $383,000 to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to develop the first high-fidelity aerodynamic virtual human model. The key products and services include: Modeling the aerodynamic micro-environment consisting of airflow near the human face, simulating the interactions between the body, hair, clothing, and airflows, and developing...

This $499,624 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Pittsburgh to develop physics-guided machine learning methods for turbulent flow simulation. Funded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the three-year award aims to advance computational fluid dynamics capabilities. Specifically, the university researchers will create a new deep learning model incorporating physical constraints to reconstruct...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $349,999 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin to develop reliable Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models that can generalize to complex turbulent flows. The objective is to improve the predictive capabilities of computational fluid dynamics simulations, which have applications in aerospace, automotive, power generation, and wind energy sectors. The approach involves developing...

This $272,400 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a collaborative research effort between the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to investigate and develop techniques for estimating and controlling gust-induced aerodynamic effects in energy and propulsion systems involving lifting surfaces. The key objectives of the 18-month project are to leverage prior research on unsteady aerodynamics to advance the...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $670,636 project grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to the California Institute of Technology. The grant will fund the development of a robust wall model for large-eddy simulations through reinforcement learning methods. Present wall models rely on assumptions that limit applicability, often incorrectly predicting separation and transition crucial to external aerodynamics simulations. This project aims to develop novel wall...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded Purdue University a $553,170 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to support the development of advanced diagnostics for embedded flow control technologies for high work/low Reynolds turbines (ADBFCONTUR). The grant will fund research from October 15, 2022 through October 14, 2023 to maintain Air Force technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to its needs....

This Project Grant award from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $1,200,000.00 in funding to The Johns Hopkins University for the "Center of Excellence in Assimilation of Flow Features in Compressible Reacting Flows" research project. The project aims to develop and demonstrate methodologies and tools for informing computational models of hypersonic systems with experimental data, focusing on data...

This $585,000 five-year faculty early career development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to characterize turbulence and wind loads in urban environments. The goal is to advance fundamental understanding of turbulence behavior in densely populated areas and improve analytical models for predicting wind-loading on low-rise structures. The project will utilize wind tunnel experiments and computational fluid dynamics...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $112,951 Project Grant to the University of Puerto Rico under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant supports research on coherent structure assessment in high-speed crossflow jets. Specifically, the University of Puerto Rico will conduct numerical simulations and data analysis to complete two test cases by the end of year one involving turbulence precursor simulations for crossflow...

This three-year, $504,413 Project Grant from the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) supports research at Florida State University to fuse experimental and computational data for the analysis of complex fluid flows. The awardee will employ a novel four-camera, four-pulse volumetric particle tracking system capable of accurate Lagrangian measurements to study turbulent boundary layers, wakes, unsteady...