Project Grant N000142412370

This $250,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program, with a performance period from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026, will fund collaborative research by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to develop a new understanding of droplet breakup behavior under complex acceleration conditions. The research will utilize a combination of experiments and simulations to examine droplet breakup processes, with the goal of creating an improved...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) project grant award of $306,449 to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) aims to significantly improve the understanding of droplet breakup under complex, variable accelerations. The project will use a combination of experiments and simulations to examine droplet breakup behavior and develop a hydrodynamic instability-based model that can be used to predict droplet breakup in a wide range of applications, such...

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...

This two-year, $400,138 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund research into instabilities in suspension flows. The University of Illinois will conduct laboratory experiments and apply existing theory to explore suspension flows in structured channels. Researchers will characterize the laminar steady state as a function of Reynolds number for specified particle sizes and volume fractions. They will...

The Department of Defense (DoD) awarded a $599,864 Project Grant under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to the University of Missouri System (Missouri S&T) to conduct research on "Understanding Dynamics and Evaporation of Fuel Droplets in Supercritical Environments via Multiscale Modeling and Experiments". The 3-year grant, awarded on June 15, 2024, will support a collaborative effort between researchers at Missouri S&T and Louisiana State University (LSU) to...

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $387,488 project grant to Wayne State University to develop a new physics-based model for accurately predicting the size distribution of droplets produced through air-blast atomization of liquid films. This research aims to advance the scientific understanding of the complex bag-breakup mechanism that generates fine droplets essential for applications such as power generation, agricultural spraying, and surface...

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 $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...

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program will provide $555,000 to the University of Texas at Austin from August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2026. The primary objectives of the project are to: 1) Generate a comprehensive database on turbulence-chemistry interactions in turbulent flames of ammonia/hydrogen fuel blends through large-scale direct numerical...