Project Grant W911NF2510200

This is a $200,000 three-year project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Oakland University. The award supports research to develop unique vibration and noise control technologies, specifically centrifugal pendulum vibration absorbers (CPVAs), to reduce vibrations in rotating systems such as helicopter rotors and vehicle powertrains. The research aims to generate new fundamental knowledge related to the design of CPVAs for...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) award of $192,283 to Northeastern University supports collaborative research to model the influence of turbulence on flow-induced instabilities of large flexible structures, with a focus on wind turbine blades. The research aims to develop a novel dynamic model for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) systems that accounts for the effects of turbulence on the onset and post-critical behavior of aeroelastic instabilities in...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Merced to conduct a hybrid experimental and numerical study of vortex mechanics. The goal is to develop new vortex models that incorporate features like internal vortex structure and coupling to other flows, in order to improve prediction and control of fluid behavior in a wide range of contexts. This 3-year project will validate the new vortex models through experiments on streamwise vortices...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $350,000 in funding to Harvard University to develop reliable and predictive computational models for simulating complex turbulent flows. The objective is to create generalized Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models that can accurately predict turbulent flows, which are essential for advancing key technologies in sectors such as aerospace, automotive, and power...

This Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program, CFDA 47.083, provides $149,980 to the University of Maine System to conduct research on the orbital motion dynamics of offshore wind turbines (OWTs) during the installation phase. The interdisciplinary project team will investigate the unique dynamics of partially installed bottom-fixed OWTs using wave tank experiments and high-fidelity numerical...

This $326,187 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports research into the complex dynamics of large spatially-extended systems with long-range interactions. Funded under the NSF Engineering Directorate's $47.041 million Engineering program, the three-year award to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University will advance understanding of nonlinear dynamics in systems of societal importance like the atmosphere, oceans, and distributed networks. Principal investigators will use...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $670,636 project grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to the California Institute of Technology. The grant will fund the development of a robust wall model for large-eddy simulations through reinforcement learning methods. Present wall models rely on assumptions that limit applicability, often incorrectly predicting separation and transition crucial to external aerodynamics simulations. This project aims to develop novel wall...

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 Project Grant award of $292,738 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to understand the inner structure of leading-edge vortices on swept-back wings and develop theoretical models to explain recent observations. The goal is to create a new paradigm for controlling tailless aircraft configurations by leveraging the periodic liftoff and propagation of these vortices. The research will be conducted by the University of Arizona and...

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...