PSI
NRA Awarded Research by Area
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)