Current Sponsored Projects

Heng Ban

INL - NGNP: Thermophysical Propery Measurement on Nuclear Fuels and Materials

INL - Electromotive Force Measurements

DOE/NSUF - Irradiation Effect on Thermophysical Properties of H3Al-Al Composite: A Concept for Fast Neutron Testing at ATR

NNSA - Viscosity Measurement Technique for Metal Fuels

INL - Development of Thermal Effusivity Measurement Techniques

DOE/NEUP - Scholarship & Fellowship Support

DOE/NEUP - Infrastructure Upgrade (Co-PI: Bob Spall)

French Government - Chateaubrian Fellowship: Collaborative Research with Relms University in Nanoscale Heat Transfer

NRC - Nuclear Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program (NEGFP)

Steve Folkman

Utah DOT - Monitoring of Pipes Installed in Rich County

EBAA Iron Inc. - Pressure Cycling Tests of DR-18 PVC Pipes Using EBAA Iron Joint Restraints

UNI-BELL PVC - Watermain Break Rates for the USA & Canada for 2010

Thomas Fronk

SDL - Bonded Joints of Dissimilar Materials at Cryogenic Temperatures

Rees Fullmer

Erasmus Mundus - Spacemasters

SDL - Improvements of SDL CUBESAT Attitude Determination Systems CADS

SDL - Accuracy Modeling of Small Satellite Attitude Measurements Using Magnetometer and Sun Sensor Data

China Lake - LADAR Pointing Accuracy Calibration

David Geller

AFRL - Quality Space Imagery of LEO/GEO Satellites (Co-PI: John McInroy, University of Wyoming)

NASA - Rapid GN&C Analysis for Space Missions

CIT/JPL - Linear Covariance Analysis for GN&C

SDL - Small Satellite Proximity Operations Using Electric Thrusters and Optical Sensors

Christine Hailey

NSF - National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (Co-PIs: Kurt Becker, Dan Householder)

NSF - The Influence of MESA Activities on Underrepresented Students

Steve Hansen

INL - Design of Mars Hopper CO2 Pump and Fuel Specimen

AFOSR - Capstone Design Challenge (Co-PI: Byard Wood)

NSF - Engineering Design to Aid Aging Persons (Co-PI: Byard Wood)

Aaron Katz

DOD/ARO - Integration of Strand-based CFD Solution Procedures for Rotorcraft Aerodynamics Simulations

 Leijun Li

DOE/NEUP - Effect of Post-Weld Heat Treatment

NSF - Radioactive Materials Processing Center Planning Grant (Co-PI: Heng Ban)

Barton Smith

NEUP -  Transient Mixed Convection Validation for NGNP (Co-PI Robert Spall)

Bettis - Technical Specification for Reporting of Experimental Data on Unsteady Fluid Flow in a Confined Row of Cylinders

INL - Quantification of PIV Uncertainty for MIR Facility

INL - Nuclear Knowledge base for Advanced Modeling and Simulation

Bob Spall

US Fish & Wildlife Service - Hydrodynamic Modeling of the Mattole Estuary

UofU - ARRA: EPSCoR II C2 Support to HPC Research Network

Tony Whitmore

NASA - Development of an Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Senior Design Course

NASA EPSCoR - Development of the Aerospike Rocket and Thruster

Utah Office of Economic Development - Digital Fabrication of Hybrid Rocket Fuel Grains

Byard Wood

NRC - Faculty Development Program (Co-PI: Bob Spall)

USTAR - Biogas Cleaning and the Production of Liquid Fuels from Digester Biogas (Co-PI: Conly Hansen)

DOE - Multifunction Solar Energy (Co-PI: Jeff Muhs)

Wenbin Yu

Utah Governor's Office for Economic Development - VABS Software for Modeling Composite Beams

Groen Brothers Aviation - Analysis of Composite Rotor Blades & Aircraft Structures

Georgia Institute of Technology - Efficient High Fidelity . . .

USAF - Unified Theory for Nonlinear, Dynamic, Thermo-Mechanical Analysis with Multiphysics Structural Mode

Advanced Dynamics - VABS-Enabled Integrated Design Environment

Advanced Dynamics - Cross-Sectional Design and Analysis of Composite Rotor Blades and Wings

Universal Technology Corp - Efficient High-Fidelity Modeling of Integrate Thermal Protection Systems

Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse - Homogenization Method to Design Core of Heat Exchanger