PSI NRA Awarded Research by Area

#	PI Name	PI Organization	Proposal Title	Investigations Used	Selection year
Biophysics
1	Peter Vekilov	University of Houston	Solution convection and the nucleation precursors in protein condensation	LMM Biophysics 2,5	PSI ROSES-22
Combustion Science
2	Yiguang Ju	Princeton University	Quantitative Studies of Cool Flame Transitions at Radiation/Stretch Extinction Using Counterflow Flames	FLEX-1	PSI A (2016)
3	Tanvir Farouk	University of South Carolina	Effect of external thermo-convective perturbation on cool flame dynamics: A multidimensional multi-physics CFD analysis	FLEX-1	PSI B (2016)
4	Sean Garrick	University of Minnesota	Utilization of the smoke aerosol measurement experiment data for advanced modeling and simulation of smoke generation in micro-gravity	SAME	PSI B (2016)
5	Fumiaki Takahashi	Case Western Reserve University	Structure and stabilization of laminar jet diffusion flames	SLICE	PSI C (2017)
6	Thomas Avedisian	Cornell University	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	FLEX-1	PSI C (2017)
7	Mitchell Smooke	Yale University	Computational and Experimental Analysis of SPICE Data Sets	SPICE	PSI D (2018)
8	Paul DesJardin	State University of New York	Concurrent Flame Spread Modeling using Flamelet Generated Manifolds in Microgravity with Comparison to BASS Experiments using Two-Color Tomography	BASS	PSI E (2019)
9	Yu-Chien Chien	University of California, Irvine	PeleLM CFD of Ion Driven Winds from Diffusion Flames	ACME E-FIELD	PSI G (2021)
10	Robert Pitz	Vanderbilt University	Effect of stretch and curvature on cool flame transitions & structures using tubular flames	FLEX	PSI ROSES-21
11	Ya-Ting Liao	Case Western Reserve University	Predicting Material Flammability in Partial Gravity using Microgravity and Ground Data	BASS, BASS-II, SAFFIRE I, II, III	PSI ROSES-22
Complex Fluids/Soft Matter
12	Lou Kondic	New Jersey Institute of Technology	Structure evolution during phase separation in colloids under microgravity	ACE-M1, BCAT-3, BCAT-4, BCAT-5, BCAT-6, PHaSE	PSI B (2016)
13	James Swan	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Dynamic self-assembly driven by time with varying fields	InSPACE-3, InSPACE-3+	PSI C (2017)
14	Michael Cromer	Rochester Institute of Technology	Investigating the Role of pre-Shear and Pre-Stretching in the Transient Extensional Flow of Dilute Polymer Solutions: Modeling Benchmarking and Numerical Simulations	SHERE, SHERE-II, SHERE-R	PSI D (2018)
15	Anand Oza	New Jersey Institute of Technology	Phase Transitions in Colloid-Polymer Mixtures in Microgravity	BCAT 3 - 6	PSI E (2019)
16	Travis Walker	South Dakota School of Mines & Technology	Investigation of Aspherical Magnetic Particles in Low-Gravity Environments	InSPACE	PSI F (2020)
17	Nikolaos Gatsonis	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Multiscale Computational Modeling of Dusty Plasmas Near Space Surfaces	PKE-Nefedov & PK-3+	PSI G (2021)
18	Eric Weeks	Emory University	Thermal fluctuations of colloidal gels	ACE-M1	PSI G (2021)
19	Donald Koch	Cornell University	Dynamic response of particle-filled polymeric fluids in flows with complex Lagrangian time histories	SHERE, SHERE-II, SHERE-R	PSI ROSES-21
20	Eric Furst	University of Delaware	Self-assembled microstructure growth in directing fields	InSPACE, InSAPCE-2	PSI ROSES-22
Fluid Physics
21	Sinisa Mesarovic	Washington State University	Computational Framework for Capillary Flows	CCF, CFE	PSI A (2016)
22	Amir Riaz	University of Maryland, College Park	Gravity Scaling of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer: Numerical Simulations and Validation with MABE and NPBX	MABE, NPBX	PSI B (2016)
23	Yongsherng Lian	University of Louisville	Development and Verification of a 3D Nucleate Pool Boiling Simulation Model Using PSI Data	NPBX	PSI B (2016)
24	Vladimir Ajaev	Southern Methodist University	Modeling phase change and thermocapillary flow in the Constrained Vapor Bubble experiment	CVB, CVB-2	PSI C (2017)
25	Mark Weislogel	Portland State University	NASA CCF PSI data reduction and benchmark	CCF	PSI C (2017)
26	Jeffrey Allen	Michigan Tech University	Testing the Equivalence of Evaporation and Condensation Coefficients using the Constrained Vapor Bubble (CVB) Data from ISS Experiments	CVB, CVB-2	PSI D (2018)
27	Paul Steen	Cornell University	Capillary Flows and Draining in Microgravity	CFE	PSI D (2018)
28	Joel Plawsky	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Loop-Based Constrained Vapor Bubbles	CVB	PSI E (2019)
29	Amir Riaz	University of Maryland	Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Mechanisms in Low Gravity: Numerical Experiments of MABE and NPBX Data	MABE, NPBX, Gravity Scaling of Pool Boiling Heat	PSI F (2020)
30	Sunghwan Jung	Cornell University	Enhanced particle tracking in STDC data and its industrial application of Marangoni convection	STDCE-1	PSI F (2020)
31	Ivan Christov	Purdue University	Validation of a CFD Model for Gas-Liquid Flows in Packed Bed Reactors to Enable Thermo-Fluid Analysis in Microgravity	PBRE	PSI G (2021)
32	Ranga Narayanan	University of Florida, Gainesville	Reduced-Order Model and Experiments Using the PSI Data from STDCE	STDCE	PSI ROSES-21
33	Jeffrey Allen	Michigan Tech University	Reduced-order modeling of interfacial dynamics to enable large-scale, mission-length simulations of low-gravity propellant management using CVB PSI data	CVB	PSI ROSES-22
34	Yue Ling	University of South Carolina	Multi-scale simulations of two-phase flows and heat transfer in confined geometries using embedded thin-film models	CCF-PS-EU2	PSI ROSES-22
Informatics
35	Ioana Cozmuta	G-Space, Inc.	Development of a computer vision based toolbox for feature extraction, analysis, modeling and prediction of microgravity data sets	CSLM, PFMI, ISSI, IDGE, ACE, BCAT	PSI ROSES-21
Materials Science
36	Ebrahim Asadi	University of Memphis	Enhancement and Verification of Quantitative Phase-Field Crystal Modeling using NASA-PSI Coarsening in Solid- Liquid Mixtures Experiments Data	CSLM, CSLM-2, CSLM-2R, CSLM-3	PSI B (2016)
37	Kegang Wang	Florida Institute of Technology	Testing Analytical and Numerical Models in Phase Coarsening using NASA Physical Sciences Informatics System	CSLM, CSLM-2, CSLM-2R, CSLM-3	PSI B (2016)
38	Mohsen Eshraghi	California State University, Los Angeles	Pore-Mushy Zone Interaction during Directional Solidification of Alloys: Three Dimensional Simulation and Comparison with Experiments	PFMI	PSI B (2016)
39	Mohsen Asle Zaeem	Missouri University of Science and Tech	New Insights on Solid-Liquid Interface Anisotropy Effects on Solidification Patterns of Pure and Alloy Systems in Microgravity	IDGE, MICAST/CSS	PSI C (2017)
40	Kumar Ankit	Arizona State University	Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Crystal Growth Dynamics	IDGE	PSI D (2018)
41	Siddhartha Pathak	University of Nevada	Understanding the Local Structure-Property Relationships of Solders in Terrestrial vs. Microgravity Environments	ISSI	PSI E (2019)
42	Surrendra Tewari	Cleveland State University	Spurious Grain Formation in Alloys Directionally Solidified on the Space Station due to Marangoni Convection	MICAST/CSS, PFMI	PSI E (2019)
43	Robert Hyers	University of Massachusetts	Non-contact measurement of thermal conductivity of undercooled and reactive liquid metals	TEMPUS	PSI F (2020)
44	Adrienne Dove	University of Central Florida	Processing and analysis of the Strata-1 dataset to explore granular mechanics of a realistic system in a long-duration low-gravity environment	STRATA-1	PSI F (2020)
45	Namiko Yamamoto	Pennsylvania State University	Micromechanics-based modeling of cement solidified in the microgravity	MICS	PSI G (2021)
46	Siddartha Pathak	Iowa State University, Ames	Structure, Properties and Performance of Solder Joints in Terrestrial vs. Reduced-Gravity Environments	ISSI	PSI ROSES-21
47	Douglas Matson	Tufts College	PSI Revisiting EML Video Images from EML Work (PREVIEW)”	TEMPUS	PSI ROSES-22