Combustion Science

Spacecraft Fire Safety | Droplets | Gaseous – Premixed and Non-Premixed | Solid Fuels | Supercritical Reacting Fluids

Yiguang Ju, Princeton University

Proposal: Quantitative Studies of Cool Flame Transitions at Radiation/Stretch Extinction Using Counterflow Flames

PSI Investigation(s) Used: FLEX-1

Appendix Selected: PSI A (2016)

Tanvir Farouk, University of South Carolina

Proposal: Effect of external thermo-convective perturbation on cool flame dynamics: A multidimensional multi-physics CFD analysis

PSI Investigation(s) Used: FLEX-1

Appendix Selected: PSI B (2016)

Sean Garrick, University of Minnesota

Proposal: Utilization of the smoke aerosol measurement experiment data for advanced modeling and simulation of smoke generation in micro-gravity

PSI Investigation(s) Used: SAME

Appendix Selected: PSI B (2016)

Thomas Avedisian, Cornell University

Proposal: Use of FLEX data to enhance video image processing for studying combustion of soot-producing jet fuel droplets and their blends with bio-derived fuels

PSI Investigation(s) Used: FLEX-1

Appendix Selected: PSI C (2017)

Fumiaki Takahashi, Case Western Reserve University

Proposal: Structure and stabilization of laminar jet diffusion flames

PSI Investigation(s) Used: SLICE

Appendix Selected: PSI C (2017)

Mitchell Smooke, Yale University

Proposal: Computational and Experimental Analysis of SPICE Data Sets

PSI Investigation(s) Used: SPICE

Appendix Selected: PSI D (2018)

Paul DesJardin, State University of New York

Proposal: Concurrent Flame Spread Modeling using Flamelet Generated Manifolds in Micro-Gravity with Comparison to BASS Experiments using Two-Color Tomography

PSI Investigation(s) Used: BASS, BASS II

Appendix Selected: PSI E (2019)  

Yu-Chien Chien, University of California, Irvine

Proposal: PeleLM CFD of Ion Driven Winds from Diffusion Flames

PSI Investigation(s) Used: ACME E-FIELD

Appendix Selected: PSI G (2021)

Complex Fluids/Soft Matter

Colloids | Liquid Crystals | Foams | Polymer Solutions | Granular Flows | Dusty Plasma

Lou Kondic, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Proposal: Structure evolution during phase separation in colloids under microgravity

PSI Investigation(s) Used: ACE-M1, BCAT-3, BCAT-4, BCAT-5, BCAT-6, PHaSE

Appendix Selected: PSI B (2016)

James Swan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Proposal: Dynamic self-assembly driven by time with varying fields

PSI Investigation(s) Used: InSPACE-3, InSPACE-3+

Appendix Selected: PSI C (2017)

Michael Cromer, Rochester Institute of Technology

Proposal: Investigating the Role of Pre-Shear and Pre-Stretching in the Transient Extensional Flow of Dilute Polymer Solutions: Modeling Benchmarking and Numerical Simulations

PSI Investigation(s) Used: SHERE, SHERE II, SHERE R

Appendix Selected: PSI D (2018)

  

Anand Oza, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Proposal: Phase Transitions in Colloid-Polymer Mixtures in Microgravity

PSI Investigation(s) Used: BCAT 3-6

Appendix Selected: PSI E (2019)

Travis Walker, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

Proposal: Investigation of Aspherical Magnetic Particles in Low-Gravity Environments

PSI Investigation(s) Used: InSPACE

Appendix Selected: PSI F (2020)

Nikolaos Gatsonis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Proposal: Multiscale Computational Modeling of Dusty Plasmas Near Space Surfaces

PSI Investigation(s) Used: PKE-Nefedov & PK-3+

Appendix Selected: PSI G (2021)

Eric Weeks, Emory University

Proposal: Thermal fluctuations of colloidal gels

PSI Investigation(s) Used: ACE-M1

Appendix Selected: PSI G (2021)

Fluid Physics

Adiabatic Two-phase Flow | Boiling and Condensation | Capillary Flow and Interfacial phenomena | Cryogenic Storage and Handling

Sinisa Mesarovic, Washington State University

Proposal: Computational Framework for Capillary Flows

PSI Investigation(s) Used: CCF, CFE

Appendix Selected: PSI A (2016)

Amir Riaz, University of Maryland

Proposal: Gravity Scaling of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer: Numerical Simulations and Validation with MABE and NPBX

PSI Investigation(s) Used: MABE, NPBX

Appendix Selected: PSI B (2016)

Yongsherng Lian, University of Louisville

Proposal: Development and Verification of a 3D Nucleate Pool Boiling Simulation Model Using PSI Data

PSI Investigation(s) Used: NPBX

Appendix Selected: PSI B (2016)

Viadimir Ajaev, Southern Methodist University

Proposal: Modeling phase change and thermocapillary flow in the Constrained Vapor Bubble experiment

PSI Investigation(s) Used: CVB, CVB-2

Appendix Selected: PSI C (2017)

Mark Weislogel, Portland State University

Proposal: NASA CCF PSI data reduction and benchmark

PSI Investigation(s) Used: CCF

Appendix Selected: PSI C (2017)

Jeffrey Allen, Michigan Technological University

Proposal: Testing the Equivalence of Evaporation and Condensation Coefficients using the Constrained Vapor Bubble (CVB) Data from International Space Station experiments

PSI Investigation(s) Used: CVB, CVB-2

Appendix Selected: PSI D (2018)

Paul Steen, Cornell University

Proposal: Capillary Flows and Draining in Microgravity

PSI Investigation(s) Used: CFE

Appendix Selected: PSI D (2018)

Joel Plawsky, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Proposal: Loop-Based Constrained Vapor Bubbles

PSI Investigation(s) Used: CVB

Appendix Selected: PSI E (2019)

Amir Riaz, University of Maryland

Proposal: Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Mechanisms in Low Gravity: Numerical Experiments of MABE and NPBX Data

PSI Investigation(s) Used: MABE, NPBX, Gravity Scaling of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer: Numerical Simulations and Validation with MABE and NPBX

Appendix Selected: PSI F (2020)

Sunghwan Jung, Cornell University

Proposal: Enhanced particle tracking in STDC data and its industrial application of Marangoni convection

PSI Investigation(s) Used: STDCE-1

Appendix Selected: PSI F (2020)

Ivan Christov, Purdue University

Proposal: Validation of a CFD Model for Gas-Liquid Flows in Packed Bed Reactors to Enable Thermo-Fluid Analysis in Microgravity

PSI Investigation(s) Used: PBRE

Appendix Selected: PSI G (2021)

Ranga Narayanan, University of Florida, Gainsville

Proposal: Reduced-Order Model and Experiments Using the PSI Data from STDCE

PSI Investigation(s) Used: STDCE

Appendix Selected: PSI ROSES-21

Informatics 

Ioana Cozmuta, G-Space

Proposal: Development of a computer vision based toolbox for feature extraction, analysis, modeling and prediction of microgravity data sets

PSI Investigation(s) Used: CSLM, PFMI, ISSI, IDGE, ACE, BCAT

Appendix Selected: PSI ROSES-21

Materials Science

Metals | Semiconductors | Polymers and Organics | Glasses and Ceramics | Granular Materials

Ebrahim Asadi, University of Memphis

Proposal: Enhancement and Verification of Quantitative Phase-Field Crystal Modeling using NASA-PSI Coarsening in Solid- Liquid Mixtures Experiments Data

PSI Investigation(s) Used: CSLM, CSLM-2, CSLM-2R, CSLM-3

Appendix Selected: PSI B (2016)

Kegang Wang, Florida Institute of Technology

Proposal: Testing Analytical and Numerical Models in Phase Coarsening using NASA Physical Sciences Informatics System

PSI Investigation(s) Used: CSLM, CSLM-2, CSLM-2R, CSLM-3

Appendix Selected: PSI B (2016)

Mohsen Eshraghi, California State University, Los Angeles

Proposal: Pore-Mushy Zone Interaction during Directional Solidification of Alloys: Three Dimensional Simulation and Comparison with Experiments

PSI Investigation(s) Used: PFMI

Appendix Selected: PSI B (2016)

Mohsen Asle Zaeem, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Proposal: New insights on solid-liquid interface anisotropy effects on solidification patterns of pure and alloy systems in microgravity

PSI Investigation(s) Used: IDGE, MICAST/CSS 6-7

Appendix Selected: PSI C (2017)

Kumar Ankit, Arizona State University

Proposal: Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Crystal Growth Dynamics

PSI Investigation(s) Used: IDGE

Appendix Selected: PSI D (2018)

Siddhartha Pathak, University of Nevada

Proposal: Understanding the Local Structure-Property Relationships of Solders in Terrestrial vs. Microgravity Environments

PSI Investigation(s) Used: ISSI

Appendix Selected: PSI E (2019)

Surendra Tewari, Cleveland State University

Proposal: Spurious Grain Formation in Alloys Directionally Solidified on the Space Station due to Marangoni Convection

PSI Investigation(s) Used: MICAST/CSS, PFMI

Appendix Selected: PSI E (2019)

Robert Hyers, University of Massachusetts

Proposal: Non-contact measurement of thermal conductivity of undercooled and reactive liquid metals

PSI Investigation(s) Used: TEMPUS

Appendix Selected: PSI F (2020)

Adrienne Dove, University of Central Florida

Proposal: Processing and analysis of the Strata-1 dataset to explore granular mechanics of a realistic system in a long-duration low-gravity environment

PSI Investigation(s) Used: STRATA-1

Appendix Selected: PSI F (2020)

Namiko Yamamoto, Pennsylvania State University

Proposal: Micromechanics-based modeling of cement solidified in the microgravity

PSI Investigation(s) Used: MICS

Appendix Selected: PSI G (2021)