Project Grant N629092412007

This federal Project Grant award, titled "CAREER: WINTER EXTREME'S IMPACT ON WIND ENERGY - MULTISCALE MULTIPHASE THERMAL TRANSPORT", is provided by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The $416,670 award to the University of Colorado-Denver aims to deepen understanding of how ice impacts utility-scale wind turbines during extreme winter weather events. The research will involve icing tunnel experiments, field measurements, numerical simulations, and...

This $311,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships project grant supports the development of a new class of low-power, plasma-based wind turbine icing protection systems at Iowa State University from February 1, 2022 to January 31, 2024. The university will develop novel dielectric-barrier-discharge plasma actuation integrated with state-of-the-art hydro-/ice-phobic coatings to actively repel ice accretion on wind turbine blades in critical regions and efficiently...

This $399,997 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will enable researchers at Kansas State University to investigate condensation, frost, and ice formation in microgravity and gravity environments. The key objectives are to: 1) Use machine learning to quantify droplet growth, coalescence, and heat/mass transfer during condensation, 2) Examine freezing front propagation and develop mechanistic models to predict frost formation, and 3)...

This $255,843 National Science Foundation project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will fund research and development of an integrated high lift propulsor to enable affordable and energy-efficient advanced air mobility aircraft designs. Wayfarer Aircraft Research and Development Inc. will conduct wind tunnel experiments and computational fluid dynamics simulations from August 2022 to July 2023 to characterize aerodynamic interactions between a propeller and wing...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $414,978.00 to The University of Akron to advance the understanding of fundamental mechanisms for separation control using tunable flexible materials. The research will focus on fluid-structure interactions, the generation of unsteady streamwise vortices, and the effect of these vortices on separating flow dynamics. This will be accomplished through high-fidelity simulations and closely...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) project grant, valued at $286,102, will fund research at the University of North Dakota (UND) to develop advanced ice flow modeling capabilities using graphics processing units (GPUs). The goal is to better assess the Antarctic ice sheet's contribution to sea level rise and its sensitivity to climate change uncertainties. Specifically, the principal investigator and a graduate student will investigate an accelerated,...

This three-year, $411,911 National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs project grant will fund research to advance sea ice floe-size distribution and wave-ice interaction modeling capabilities within fully-coupled Earth system models. The University of Washington will receive funding to incorporate prognostic floe-size distribution components into widely-used sea ice and wave models, and parameterize wave attenuation in sea ice through data assimilation methods. Model code improvements...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA 81.135) has awarded a $550,000 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to expand the Wind Energy with Integrated Servo-Control (WEIS) toolset. The WEIS model, developed under a previous phase, is a revolutionary open-source tool that enables controls co-design optimization of conventional and innovative, cost-effective floating offshore wind turbines. The purpose of this award is to...

This $272,400 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a collaborative research effort between the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to investigate and develop techniques for estimating and controlling gust-induced aerodynamic effects in energy and propulsion systems involving lifting surfaces. The key objectives of the 18-month project are to leverage prior research on unsteady aerodynamics to advance the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Inc. in the amount of $374,070 aims to better understand how different types of precipitation in tropical cyclones impact their maximum sustained wind speeds. The 4-year project will use airborne Doppler radar data and numerical weather prediction models to examine how precipitation modes, such as convection and stratiform rain, perturb the kinematic...