Project Grant N629092212058

The Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research awarded a $248,800 Project Grant to Stichting Maritiem Research Instituut Nederland, operating as Marin, to support IN-FLIGHT TESTING AND CONTROL OF CAVITATION AND VENTILATION ON A SURFACE-PIERCING FOIL from June 25, 2021 through September 30, 2021. The grant supports applied scientific research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), which aims to improve naval operations through...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Brigham Young University (BYU) to study the dynamics of cavitation bubbles near mixed solid-gaseous surfaces. The goal is to understand when and how these surfaces can repel cavitation bubbles, which can cause damage, vibrations, and noise in various industrial applications like valves, pumps, and turbines. The project will use high-speed photography to map the behaviors of laser-induced...

This $460,353 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the dynamics of ultrafast cold cavitation in liquids at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey from March 2022 to February 2025. The grant is funded through NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which aims to advance engineering research and education. Specifically, the grant will fund the development of advanced laser ablation and imaging techniques to induce and capture cavitation bubbles in water and diesel...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award provides $329,999 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to conduct a collaborative research project focused on elucidating the role of acoustic cavitation in the demulsification of water-oil emulsions. The goal is to develop a comprehensive understanding of how cavitation can improve the efficiency of ultrasound-based water-oil separation techniques used in oil...

This Project Grant award of $250,431.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) with a start date of December 1, 2024 and an end date of November 30, 2027. The award aims to elucidate the role of acoustic cavitation in enhancing the efficiency of ultrasound-based water-oil demulsification, which is an essential step in the oil production process. The research will focus on characterizing the mechanical...

This $2,016,301 Project Grant award from the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) supports research and development of an advanced flow-independent fuel injector for naval propulsion. The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees, Office of Research, is conducting this 3-year project to develop innovative technologies that can improve the performance and efficiency of naval propulsion systems. The...

The University of Iowa received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research to support global and local flow modeling and validation experiments for free-running KCS maneuvering in waves from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2023. Under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300), the University will conduct modeling and experimental work to improve naval operations through potential advances in modeling naval vessel...

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $271,015 Project Grant to Princeton University from December 2021 through November 2024. The grant supports collaborative research to probe cavitation inception in dielectric liquids with sub-nanosecond precision under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). Specifically, the funding enables Princeton University researchers to investigate how bubbles form and collapse in...

The Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research awarded a $149,996.88 Project Grant to the University of Washington under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) to support research improving predictions of mid-frequency sound propagation and reverberation in a deep ice-covered ocean. The grant aims to advance scientific understanding of underwater sound transmission to potentially enhance naval operations. The University of Washington will conduct applied...

This $325,003 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports fundamental research to understand the flow patterns and turbulent structures of bubble plumes. The project aims to develop a comprehensive model of the entrainment process in bubble plumes under different conditions, which could help improve computer simulations of bubble plumes in natural and engineered systems. The research will include laboratory experiments to measure bubble...