NSF Engineering Grant, Multi-Scale Transport Research, AI and Quantum
Summary
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate's Transport Phenomena (TP) program solicits fundamental research proposals on multi-scale transport of mass, momentum, energy, and species. The program supports advances in artificial intelligence, quantum science and engineering, combustion, and other national priorities. Proposals are accepted on a rolling basis with no specified deadline, and eligibility is unrestricted.
“The Transport Phenomena (TP) program supports fundamental research to understand, model, and control the transport of mass, momentum, energy, and species across multiple scales.”
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The NSF Engineering Directorate published a funding opportunity announcement for its Transport Phenomena (TP) program (PD-26-366Y) under Assistance Listing 47.041. The program seeks fundamental research on multi-scale transport processes including mass, momentum, energy, and species transport across systems ranging from microscale to macroscale. Research topics of interest include artificial intelligence applications, quantum thermal phenomena, combustion of various fuels, wildland fire behavior, and interfacial phenomena. The announcement indicates no cost-sharing requirements, no specific dollar amounts, and accepts proposals continuously. Eligibility is unrestricted, meaning any applicant may submit proposals through Grants.gov.
Academic and research institutions should note this rolling-admission grant structure allows for flexible proposal submission timing. Researchers in fields including chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, materials science, and related disciplines working on transport phenomena may find this an accessible funding pathway. While the announcement provides no specific award minimum or maximum figures, applicants should consult the linked NSF Program Description (PD-26-366Y) for additional technical details and submission requirements.
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Transport Phenomena (TP)
Agency: U.S. National Science Foundation
Assistance Listings: 47.041 -- Engineering
Last Updated: April 25, 2026 View version history on Grants.gov
Description
The Transport Phenomena (TP) program supports fundamental research to understand, model, and control the transport of mass, momentum, energy, and species across multiple scales. Innovative TP research supports advances in artificial intelligence; manufacturing; biotechnology; micro electronics; energy generation, extraction, and utilization; nuclear energy; quantum science and engineering; and other national priorities.
... TP projects involve experiments, theory, and/or computational modeling. They aim to improve understanding and to create novel analytical techniques. While projects focus on fundamental principles, they also have a clear vision of how research outcomes will benefit applications in engineering.
TP supports research on the dynamics of single- and multiphase systems. S pecial interests include flow separation, transition to turbulence, drag reduction, cavitation, instabilities, and reactive flows. The program encourages research on the connection between dynamics at the microscale and material and flow properties at the macroscale. Fluids of interest include liquids, gases, suspensions, emulsions, granular materials, active fluids, biological fluids, colloids, aerosols, bubbles and drops, and fluids with surfactants.
TP supports research on physicochemical phenomena at the interfaces between fluids and between fluids and solids. These phenomena include adsorption and desorption of nanoparticles and surfactants; bulk and interfacial rheology; wetting and capillarity phenomena; e lectrokinetic s; flow in porous media; and directed and self- assembly of particles.
TP supports research on thermodynamics and thermal transport involving conduction, diffusion, convection, phase transition, and radiation. Research may be across scales, in complex structures and at interfaces, in microelectronic devices, and in biological systems. P rojects involving phonon transport and quantum thermal phenomena are welcome.
TP encourages proposals focused on combustion of gas, liquid and solid fuels. Combustion topics of interest includ e chemical kinetic modeling, turbulence-chemistry interactions, detonations, plasma assisted reacting flows, sustainable fuels, mechanisms for pollutant control, and in-situ diagnostic methods. The program also supports r esearch on wildland fire behavior that aims to prevent wildfire spread, inhibit its growth, and /or predict and mitigat e fires at the wildland-urban interface.
Partnerships: To speed discovery and innovation, NSF partners with federal agencies, industry, international groups, and others. Current opportunities are at NSF ENG Partnerships.
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