Project Grant N001782510033

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded a $100,123 Project Grant under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to North Carolina State University (NC State) for a research project titled "High-Speed Fluid Structure Interactions with Programmable Complexity." The project aims to advance computational modeling capabilities for fluid-structure interactions, including unsteady aerodynamics and nonlinear structural dynamics. Key aspects include developing reduced-order models for...

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 University of Colorado Boulder was awarded a $1,050,000 Project Grant by the Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to study the use of phononic subsurfaces and porous metasurfaces for controlling hypersonic boundary-layer flows. The grant supports a multi-institutional research effort to establish an understanding and framework for passively manipulating hypersonic flow and shock wave interactions using elastic metamaterial-based...

This $524,764 federal Project Grant was awarded on December 15, 2023 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Florida State University (FSU). The grant will fund a comprehensive investigation into the fluid-thermal-structural interactions involved in high-speed flow applications, with a focus on understanding the effects of shock waves and thermal gradients on aeroelastic flutter. The research will utilize both computational modeling and experimental...

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $278,704 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles to support theoretical research on fluid-structure interactions and wake lock-in phenomena. Under the three-year award beginning August 1, 2021, UCLA researchers will leverage phase-reduction analysis techniques to predict wake lock-in for fluid-structure interaction problems. The research aims to advance...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $161,282 to Clemson University to develop novel mathematical methodologies and approximation theories for analyzing coupled fluid-structure interaction systems. The research aims to establish existence and uniqueness of solutions, ascertain qualitative solution behavior, and provide implementable numerical approximation schemes for multilayered fluid-structure...

This $192,283 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop a new dynamic model for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) systems, with a focus on large wind turbine blades. The goal is to improve understanding of how turbulence influences flow-induced instabilities in flexible structures like wind turbine blades, enabling safer and more efficient blade designs. The research combines experimental measurements and...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $454,850 Project Grant to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (doing business as Tees) to develop a BOUNDARY LAYER TURBULENCE SURFACE SENSOR ARRAY FOR HYPERSONIC FLIGHT AND GROUND TEST. The period of performance for this award under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) was from January 13, 2021 to January 12, 2022. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program aims to maintain...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $199,412 Project Grant to the Foundation For Science Innovation And Development, a foreign non-profit organization based in India. The grant, funded under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), supports basic and applied scientific research on "Compression Through Curvature: Flow Physics and Performance of Hypersonic Curved Ramp Air Intakes." The research is designed to advance technological understanding in fluid...

This $257,109 federal Project Grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Aeronautics Research (CFDA 43.002) program supports computational modeling research on fluid-thermal-structural interactions for scramjet-powered hypersonic vehicles. The University of Colorado, a prominent public research university, is the prime awardee and will conduct this research from October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027. The project aims to advance the scientific...