Project Grant W911NF1710579

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) has awarded a $349,999 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin to develop reliable Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models that can generalize to complex turbulent flows. The objective is to improve the predictive capabilities of computational fluid dynamics simulations, which have applications in aerospace, automotive, power generation, and wind energy sectors. The approach involves developing...

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 $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 (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) provides $523,552 to the University of Texas at Austin to develop advanced computational models for simulating complex turbulent fluid flows. The research aims to create reliable, broadly applicable turbulence models for use in Large Eddy Simulation (LES) to enable more practical and accurate simulations across fields like aeronautics, propulsion, power generation, and wind energy. In...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA 47.041 (Engineering) provides $490,525.00 to The Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, to conduct research on stochastic modeling of turbulence over rough surfaces. The goal is to develop a new model that can accurately represent the velocity field and dynamics of near-surface turbulence, which is critical for applications like wind energy and pollution...

This $499,624 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Pittsburgh to develop physics-guided machine learning methods for turbulent flow simulation. Funded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the three-year award aims to advance computational fluid dynamics capabilities. Specifically, the university researchers will create a new deep learning model incorporating physical constraints to reconstruct...

The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded $575,000 to the California Institute of Technology on February 1, 2026, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop improved turbulence modeling approaches for wall-bounded flows in complex engineering applications. The research will analyze high-resolution flow data to understand how anisotropy in subgrid-scale turbulent motion affects large-eddy simulation...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to Portland State University (PSU) totaling $330,669 will develop and apply novel computational and experimental tools to study complex fluid dynamics interactions between floating wind turbine wakes, prevailing winds, and ocean waves. Key goals include: (i) Developing improved surface flux parameterizations for large eddy simulations (LES) of the marine boundary layer above ocean waves, using a...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $102,654 provides funding from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022 to support research at the University of Arkansas aimed at developing low-order modeling methods for oscillating foil energy harvesting. The award is part of the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which supports innovation and excellence in engineering research and education. Specifically, the University of Arkansas will combine experimental and computational...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded Purdue University a $553,170 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to support the development of advanced diagnostics for embedded flow control technologies for high work/low Reynolds turbines (ADBFCONTUR). The grant will fund research from October 15, 2022 through October 14, 2023 to maintain Air Force technological superiority in scientific areas relevant to its needs....