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  • CoMFRE jet atomization project captures unseen physics

    For the past four years, Kumar Saurabh, a grad student in mechanical engineering, has focused on developing new jet atomization algorithms to accurately capture the formation of droplets and necessary physics. Read More

    September 23, 2022

  • A project and a conference: Insight to FSI PDE modeling behavior

    Pelin Guven Geredeli, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and CoMFRE affiliate, is conducting two projects that hope to advance multiphase-flow discoveries.  Read More

    September 23, 2022

  • Esther Oreoluwa Jokodola
    Fermentation scale-up research jumps the lab-to-production gap

    A group of Iowa State researchers, led by Rodney Fox, CoMFRE executive director, is collaborating with Cargill and Genomatica to scale-up of fermentation processes. The award was announced this week at the White House Summit on the National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative. Read More

    September 16, 2022

  • A mechanical robotic arm
    Cyclone Engineers to advance aerosol jet printing research with NSF grant

    A team of mechanical engineering (ME) researchers at Iowa State University hope to advance their research in the field of aerosol jet printing with the help of a new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Read More

    September 12, 2022

  • Researching the recovery of e-waste metals

    Thomas Ward, CoMFRE affiliate and associate professor of aerospace engineering, has received funding of $400,000 from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop robust methods to recycle E-waste at the point of disposal (RPOD). Read More

    June 27, 2022

  • New CoMFRE project to improve droplet breakup models

    The team will inject droplets into a flow chamber with a uniform turbulent field and take high-speed videos of the droplet as it is deformed and broken by turbulence. Different droplet sizes and fluid types will be filmed many times over to create a large body of videos that will be statistically analyzed to yield new insights on the droplet breakup process. Read More

    June 20, 2022

  • Soft, porous microelectrodes to better understand TBI mechanisms

    Iowa State University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) Associate Professor and CoMFRE affiliate Nicole Hashemi has received over $600,000 grants from the Office of Naval Research and a $225,000 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct research to better understand mechanisms of injury from mechanical forces in TBI. Read More

    June 14, 2022

  • Cyclone engineers advance fluids research at Argonne National Lab

    A team of mechanical engineering researchers were able to advance their research in the field of atomization and sprays by utilizing the resources available at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. Read More

    March 7, 2022

  • Rehmann and Ikuma
    Addressing Environmental Injustice with Pathogen Exposure Research after Floods

    Throughout years of floods from natural disasters, research has mostly focused on the impact of dangerous bacteria that are released from municipalities or agricultural fields and swept along in floodwaters. But what happens to the pathogens (contaminants that cause disease) that were released and stick around when the flood waters are no longer there, and how does it impact the communities exposed? Read More

    February 21, 2022

  • CoMFRE impacting peer-reviewed journals

    CoMFRE researchers serve on editorial teams at the top peer-reviewed journals in the field. Read More

    February 16, 2022

  • Award-winning plunging jet research: Roy Pillers, CoMFRE Ph.D. student

    Roy Pillers is a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering in CoMFRE director's Ted Heindel’s research group studying plunging liquid jets, work that has won multiple national awards. Read More

    December 28, 2021

  • CoMFRE Annual Meeting: Presentations and pitches

    The Center for Multiphase Flow Research and Education hosted their annual meeting on October 26, 2021, marking another year of successful collaboration and discovery. CoMFRE affiliates gave 11 presentations on member-supported research projects as well as federally-supported research – and students participated in a research pitch competition. Nearly 50 researchers, graduate students and industry partners attended the virtual event. Read More

    December 9, 2021

  • Droplets leaving a human body and falling to the ground
    CoMFRE team publishes review of respiratory protection devices research – the past and the future

    An interdisciplinary team of CoMFRE affiliates led by Guowen Song, professor of apparel, events and hospitality management and Noma Scott Lloyd Chair in Textiles and Clothing, published a review article in Polymers about research on the area of respiratory protection devices (RPDs). Read More

    December 9, 2021

  • CoMFRE’s Ganapathysubramanian leads $20 million AI institute

    CoMFRE affiliate Baskar Ganapathysubramanian leads a new five-year, $20 million AI institute that will accelerate the productivity and sustainability of agriculture, including harnessing multiphase flow phenomena for resilient ag. The NSF and USDA-NIFA-funded project brings together expertise of researchers at eight universities and organizations across the U.S., including CoMFRE’s Adarsh Krishnamurthy. Read More

    December 1, 2021

  • CoMFRE graduate student earns prestigious DoD SMART Scholarship

    Justin Lajoie, a mechanical engineering graduate student working with Travis Sipple in multiphase flows, has received the Department of Defense, Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship. The scholarship fully funds his education and allows him to focus on his research. Read More

    September 28, 2021