Project Grant NNM13AA07G

This $499,999 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Tennessee Space Institute to develop an in-depth understanding of ammonia sprays and combustion behavior under elevated pressures up to 80 bar. The grantee will combine laser diagnostics and numerical simulations to study non-vaporizing, vaporizing, and reacting spray conditions. Advanced laser diagnostics including 2D Raman, PLIF and rainbow reflectometry will provide unprecedented flow,...

The University of Akron received a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop coherent coolant jet and nozzle manufacturing technology for grinding applications. The award period is from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. Under the grant, the University will utilize computational fluid dynamics modeling and 3D printing to design and manufacture nozzles and conditioners capable of delivering a long, coherent...

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 project grant of $318,990 will fund research at Marquette University from January 2023 through December 2025 to develop a state-of-the-art combustion simulation tool for modeling multicomponent fuel droplets in high-pressure engine environments. The tool aims to capture the impact of realistic fuel composition on soot formation with greater fidelity than existing surrogate approaches. As part of the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the research seeks to...

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...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $508,122 to San Diego State University Research Foundation from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2027. The funding supports research into soot formation processes in elevated temperature flames, with the goal of developing new models to accurately capture soot behavior in higher temperature combustion regimes including rocket propulsion and emerging technologies. Specifically, the grantee will...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) provides $400,204 to Purdue University to conduct an integrated molecular dynamics and machine learning investigation of gas-liquid interfaces in transcritical reacting flows. The project aims to improve the understanding of the underlying physics governing interfaces, phase changes, and molecular transport within high-pressure, transcritical fluid flows, which are critical for the efficiency of...

Oceanit Laboratories Inc. received a $200,000 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to develop the Hydrogen-Recovery Using an AI-ARC-Plasma Learning Operational System (HALO) for Oilfield Waste Transformation to Value Added Products. The project aims to utilize an artificial intelligence-assisted atmospheric radio frequency cold plasma system to transform oilfield waste into marketable byproducts. This work directly supports the mission of the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a 5-year, $443,602 CAREER grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to advance plasma-assisted combustion (PAC) technology for low-emission, sustainable fuels. The project aims to deepen the understanding of how plasma strategies can stabilize turbulent flames and optimize NOx emissions, with a focus on CO2-free fuels like hydrogen and ammonia. Key goals include developing numerical models for plasma-assisted flamelets, correlating...

This $354,405 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Arizona State University aims to develop a modeling framework for large-eddy simulation of turbulent premixed flame in order to discover closure terms that describe combustion-induced energy backscatter. The research is expected to provide new subgrid-scale models that can accurately capture energy backscatter in turbulent premixed flame, which is critical for improving the...