Assistant Professor Jeffrey Sutton to Receive Funding Support for Purchase of New Instrumentation
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Assistant Professor Jeffrey Sutton has been selected to receive funding to support the purchase of instrumentation under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). The $422,478 award will be funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) in support Sutton's research entitled, “kHz- to MHz-Rate Imaging in High-Reynolds Number Turbulent Reacting Flows”. Under this competition, 29 awards totaling $12.7 million were selected by AFOSR from 260 research proposals requesting $99.8 million. The official announcement can be found at http://www.wpafb.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123353723 and the list of winning proposals can be assessed at http://www.wpafb.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-130624-021.pdf
The DURIP award will support the acquisition of new instrumentation that will enhance Sutton’s current high-speed imaging capabilities and enable new, ground-breaking research that targets the dynamics of turbulence-chemistry interaction and inter-scale energy transfer in high-Reynolds number reacting flows. The requested instrumentation will fill critical needs and allow previously-unavailable measurement capabilities, resulting in a new understanding of highly turbulent, high-Reynolds number reacting flows.
About the DURIP Program
The DURIP award will support the acquisition of new instrumentation that will enhance Sutton’s current high-speed imaging capabilities and enable new, ground-breaking research that targets the dynamics of turbulence-chemistry interaction and inter-scale energy transfer in high-Reynolds number reacting flows. The requested instrumentation will fill critical needs and allow previously-unavailable measurement capabilities, resulting in a new understanding of highly turbulent, high-Reynolds number reacting flows.
About the DURIP Program
The DURIP program is highly competitive and supports the acquisition of state-of-the art equipment that augments current or develops new university capabilities to perform cutting edge defense research. DURIP meets a critical need by enabling university researchers to purchase scientific equipment costing $50,000 or more to conduct DoD relevant research, as purchasing these instruments under research contracts and grants is difficult. Awards made under DURIP funding are the result of a competition jointly conducted by the Army Research Office (ARO), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). In total, ARO, ONR, and AFOSR received more than 750 proposals requesting $288 million for research equipment.
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