Description

This program supports fundamental engineering research to advance understanding, modeling, and control of transport phenomena—specifically the transport of mass, momentum, energy, and species—across multiple scales. Research may involve experiments, theory, and/or computational modeling, with an emphasis on fundamental principles and a vision for engineering applications.

Areas of interest include:

• Dynamics of single- and multiphase systems (e.g., flow separation, turbulence, drag reduction, instabilities, reactive flows)
• Physicochemical phenomena at interfaces (e.g., adsorption/desorption, rheology, wetting, capillarity, electrokinetics, flow in porous media, self-assembly)
• Thermodynamics and thermal transport (e.g., conduction, diffusion, convection, phase transitions, radiation, phonon transport, quantum thermal phenomena)
• Combustion (e.g., chemical kinetics, turbulence-chemistry interactions, detonations, plasma-assisted reacting flows, sustainable fuels, pollutant control, diagnostics)
• Wildland fire behavior and mitigation

The program encourages projects that connect microscale dynamics to macroscale properties and welcomes studies on a wide range of fluids (liquids, gases, suspensions, emulsions, granular materials, biological fluids, colloids, aerosols, bubbles, drops, fluids with surfactants).

Partnerships with other agencies, industry, and international collaborators are encouraged to accelerate discovery and innovation.