Project Grant N629092312069

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 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports a collaborative research project focused on elucidating the role of cavitation in the demulsification of water-oil emulsions. The $250,431 award to Worcester Polytechnic Institute aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of how acoustic cavitation can enhance the phase separation efficiency of...

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...

Dynaflow, Inc. received a $199,754 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support research titled "CAVITATION ENHANCED SUBCRITICAL WATER EXTRACTION OF WET ALGAE FOR PHYTOL AND LIPIDS RECOVERY." The award is being carried out in Jessup, Maryland through March 26, 2023. The funding supports Dynaflow's research under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which aims to transform understanding of nature and...

This is a $329,999 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech). The grant will fund research to elucidate the role of acoustic cavitation in the demulsification of water-oil emulsions, with the goal of improving the efficiency of ultrasound-based separation techniques used in oil production. The project will employ a combined experimental and computational approach to...

This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will fund the development of experimental capabilities to measure properties of supercritical fluids and their mixtures at the University of North Texas from August 2022 to July 2023. The university will obtain experimental data on critical properties for mixtures of carbon dioxide with argon and R134a refrigerant. It will also conduct natural convection experiments to demonstrate the...

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded a $274,975 Project Grant to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to investigate the role of microbubbles in improving the efficacy of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy. The key objectives are to develop a well-controlled in vitro experimental setup to study temperature elevation in tissue phantoms with and...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc. (Craft-Tech) on July 22, 2024 under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant supports the development of "EFFICIENT AND ROBUST COMPRESSOR DESIGNS FOR SUPERCRITICAL CO2 POWER CYCLES". Craft-Tech, a small business specializing in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) services, will leverage its expertise in areas such as...

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...