Project Grant N000142412357

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $198,529 to the Florida Institute of Technology Inc. (Florida TECH) to conduct advanced numerical simulations and experiments on turbulent combustion in high-speed aerospace propulsion systems. The goal is to develop improved models and predictive capabilities for designing safer and more efficient scramjet and ramjet engines. The research integrates direct numerical simulations,...

This Project Grant award of $414,978 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research at the University of Akron to advance the understanding of flow control mechanisms using tunable flexible materials. The research aims to develop new methods for mitigating flow separation over aircraft wings and turbine blades, which can lead to reduced lift and undesirable pressure fluctuations. Key aspects of the project include: (1) performing...

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 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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems award, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $556,861 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to conduct research on fluid dynamics in confined geometries, specifically related to heat management in high-power electronic devices. The research aims to unravel the enigma of hydraulic jumps, a phenomenon observed in liquid flows, and understand how it may impact the...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $296,787 supports research at Clemson University from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The university will conduct experimental investigations and numerical simulations to improve understanding of turbulent mixing processes in combustion. Researchers will analyze physical-space scalar structure and unresolved mixing using the recently developed self-conditioned fields approach to...

This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Missouri System's Missouri University of Science & Technology to investigate compressibility effects on turbulence production in supersonic flows. The goal is to improve understanding of the mixing process in supersonic combustors for hypersonic flight applications. The project will utilize two-point focused laser differential interferometry to...

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 $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 National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $458,858 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NEW PATHWAYS TO ENHANCED TURBULENCE AND MIXING VIA KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY TUBE AND KNOT DYNAMICS." The three-year award beginning November 1, 2021 will fund basic research into atmospheric dynamics and turbulence under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050)....