Michael J. Shelley - US grants
Affiliations: | Mathematics | New York University, New York, NY, United States |
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According to our matching algorithm, Michael J. Shelley is the likely recipient of the following grants.Years | Recipients | Code | Title / Keywords | Matching score |
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1994 — 1995 | Muraki, David (co-PI) [⬀] Peskin, Charles (co-PI) [⬀] Childress, W. Stephen Shelley, Michael Kay, Ken |
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Cise Research Instrumentation Program @ New York University 9320154 Shelley A color graphics workstation, with accessories and software, will be acquired to advance research projects, all involving large-scale multi-dimensional scientific computation, in computational fluid dynamics, physics, nonlinear optics, and biology. One research project will use computer visualization and animation to comprehend large-scale simulations of complex fluid flows, develop good numerical methods for such problems, and to disseminate these results to the scientific community. These problems include computation and modeling of topology transitions and singularity formation in fluid flows (vortex reconnection and bubble formation), and computation of multi-phase flows with surface tensions. Another research project will apply computer graphics to research on computer simulation of the heart. It will be used to construct and improve the heart model, to debug the code, to visualize the resulting computer experiments, to compare the simulational results with experimental observations, and to communicate the results to others. Comprehending the heart model involves simultaneous visualization of a deformable structure and the fluid it contains, all requiring the rapid manipulation of massive amounts of data. A third project will make numerical studies of magnetic structures in two-dimensional unsteady flow fields. At large magnetic Reynolds numbers, small-scale structures associated with fast dynamo action in stretching flows will be identified, and comparisons made with theoretical dynamo models. Color-coding of field strength and studying the field evolution using videotaped se quences at about 60 frames/cycle, should allow direct determination of the mechanism of field amplification. Finally, research will be done on computational investigations addressing current issues of spatial complexity in 3-d nonlinear optical systems. One computational study is of mathematical models for the nonlinear evolution of self-focused laser beams in systems which do not display transverse collapse. In some cases, the beam profiles develop multiple filaments, corroborating experimental observations of these finely-interwoven optical structures will be considerably enhanced by fully three-dimensional computer visualizations. *** ECEXE @ j i SSMARQUESCR @ j B SSMYST SCR @ j L SSSTARS SCR @ j D TADA WAV @ j & l TARTAN BMP @ j 4 v TERMINALEXE @ j E B TERMINALHLP @ j 9320154 Shelley A color graphics workstation, with accessories and software, will be acquired to advance research projects, | ^ ` o q \ ^ w | $ $ $ G | | Times Symbol " Helvetica Chicago Times New Roman & Arial 5 Courier New R ZapfDingbats Palatino Greek GenMath MathMeteor MT Extra " e e 4 Shelley/NYU Mark Purvis Mark Purvis |
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1994 — 1997 | Hummel, Robert Mclaughlin, David Greengard, Leslie (co-PI) [⬀] Shelley, Michael |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Renovation of the Facilities For Scientific Computing and Visualization At the Courant Institute @ New York University This is a proposal to modernize the computer network and the display terminals used by researchers of the Courant Institute in order to support research using high-performance computers and to support high-performance visualization methods in computer and information science and engineering research. |
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1994 — 2001 | Shelley, Michael | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Mathematical Sciences: Computations in Fluids and Materials @ New York University 9707494 Michael Shelley These projects concern dynamics and pattern formation in complex fluids, and singularity formation and topological transitions in Newtonian fluids. The first project considers the hydrodynamics of slender elastic filaments, such as arise in liquid crystal flows, the dynamics of phospho-lipid bilayer tubes, and in the dynamics of biological polymers. Building tractable computational models, that account for hydrodynamic interactions of the filament with itself, relies on discriminating exploitation of slenderness. This still gives a computationally intensive problem with high-order time-step constraints from elasticity, interaction integrals with singular kernels, and integral equations to be solved at every time-step. The second project continues towards an understanding of topological transitions of fluid/fluid interfaces between immiscible liquids. The fundamental questions are: How does surface tension provoke or mediate transitions? What characterizes the singularity? What physics needs to be added to follow the transition? And what is left of the singularity in its aftermath? Building upon previous work on such singularities in the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability between immiscible fluids, it is proposed to study, computationally and analytically, singularities and transitions in jets that separate immiscible fluids, both by using sharp interface models, and fluid models that have viscosity and allow some miscibility. The third project studies the effect of shear-thinning, a property shared with many non-Newtonian fluids and liquid crystal flows, on the development of the Saffman-Taylor instability. Some of the modelling work has already been done, yielding a natural non-Newtonian version of Darcy's law, relating the fluid velocity to the solution of a nonlinear elliptic problem. It is proposed to now simulate the full nonlinear dynamics of such a bubble expanding into a shear-thinning liquid. This is a very challenging comp utational problem as it involves the solution of nonlinear elliptic problems on an evolving domain. Much of the fundamental dynamics of fluids and materials -- singularity and pattern formation are two central examples -- will be understood by a progression from mathematical modelling, to developing computational methods and relevant mathematical understanding, and thence to large-scale simulation and data analysis through high-performance computing. The three projects to be pursued here all lie at the intersection of fluid dynamics and materials science, and all illustrate the above statement. In the first project, it is proposed to understand and simulate the dynamics of filamentary structures, as arise in phase transitions of liquid crystalline fluids, the dynamics of phospho-lipid bilayer tubes, and in the dynamics of biological polymers. In first example, such filaments are of potential technological importance in the manufacture of high-strength filaments. The second project continues towards a theoretical understanding of what drives the break-up into droplets of a jet of fluid into a second, different fluid (say, oil and water). While easy and common to observe, such behavior is strongly associated with surface tension, an effect that is still ill-understood, and yet lies at the heart of much basic fluid phenomena. This will be studied by a combination of modelling, analysis, and large-scale computation. The final project concerns the dynamics of shear-thinning liquids flowing in thin gaps. Such flows are important to display device design, and to injection molding. Of particular interest is the instability and pattern formation associated with a gas/liquid interface which is driven but mediated by surface tension. This is an extremely challenging computational problem, requiring the development of new simulational methods. |
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1997 — 2001 | Braams, Bastiaan Shelley, Michael |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Acquisition of a Simulation and Visualization Facility For Fluid Dynamics Research @ New York University This MRI award will support the purchase of equipment for research, research training, and education in computational fluid dynamics and visualization, at the Courant Institute. The aim is to create a state-of-the-art simulation and visualization center within our new Applied Mathematics Laboratory (AML), which is dedicated to education and research training in fluid dynamical simulation and visualization. The equipment will be shared by research groups engaged in various areas of fluid dynamics research at the Institute, and integrated with the present and future computational and visualization facilities owned by these research groups. The planned instrumentation includes computers, a mass storage system, projection facilities, network enhancements, third-party software licenses, and miscellaneous smaller items. . The research and research training to be conducted in the facility is dedicated to understanding complicated fluid flows - 2- and 3-dimensional - arising in biophysics, geophysics, and energy research as well as basic fluid dynamics, and to education in fluid dynamical computation and visualization. A major beneficiary of the requested instrumentation is the new Applied Mathematics Laboratory now under construction on the ground floor of Warren Weaver Hall. The AML is comprised of two components, the Wetlab and the ViSLab. The Wetlab is a demonstration and research laboratory of fluid mechanics. The ViSLab (Visualization and Simulation Laboratory) is the associated computational facility. The AML facility is designed to integrate research with research training and education, and to synthesize computation, visualization, and experimental research with research training and instruction. Research activities that will use the proposed instrumentation include the simulation of insect flight, computational studies of the dynamics of complex fluids, the fluid dynamics of the heart, three-dimensional niagnetohydrodynamic modelling for fusion science and solar physics, geophysical flows, and study of aerodynamic flow in complicated geometry. Through the present proposal it will provide our students with access to large-scale simulation platforms and to modern visualization and animation hardware and software. This research effort will be funded jointly by the Division of Mathematical Science, the MPS Office of Multidisciplinary Activities, and the MRI Program. |
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1999 — 2003 | Wettlaufer, John Zorin, Denis (co-PI) [⬀] Peskin, Charles [⬀] Childress, W. Stephen Shelley, Michael |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
@ New York University Peskin |
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2003 — 2012 | Mishra, Bhubaneswar (co-PI) [⬀] Shapley, Robert (co-PI) [⬀] Osman, Roman Shelley, Michael Greengard, Leslie (co-PI) [⬀] Schlick, Tamar (co-PI) [⬀] |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Igert: Program in Computational Biology (Cob) @ New York University Many achievements in the biological and biomedical sciences are fueled by advances in technology and computational science. To address the complex challenges in the biological sciences in the 21st century, there is a growing need for professionals who can translate scientific problems in biology into mathematics and computations; for such productive work, familiarity with modern scientific computing approaches as well as key biological challenges is essential. |
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2004 — 2008 | Tornberg, Anna-Karin (co-PI) [⬀] Shelley, Michael |
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Dynamics of Fiber Suspensions and Their Applications @ New York University The investigators will develop robust, accurate, and cost-effective |
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2004 — 2007 | Shelley, Michael Palffy-Muhoray, Peter (co-PI) [⬀] |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Sger: Proposal Formodeling the Dynamics of Shape Change in Liquid Crystal Elastomer Systems @ New York University Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are rubbers whose |
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2007 — 2011 | Zhang, Jun (co-PI) [⬀] Shelley, Michael |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Frg: Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Elastic Biostructures in Complex Fluids @ New York University Problems in biological fluid dynamics typically involve the interaction of an elastic structure with a surrounding fluid. Mucus transport by cilia in the respiratory tract, sperm penetration of the oocyte in fertilization, and peristaltic contractions of the oviduct are examples of such interactions. Many biological fluids are actually complex; that is they are not liquids or mixtures of a simple molecular structure that yields Newtonian responses, but instead have complicated non-Newtonian mechanical responses that arise, usually, because they have suspended microstructure. While much progress has been made in the development of mathematical models and numerical methods for fluid-structure interactions in a Newtonian fluid, much work needs to be done in the case of complex fluids. This focused research group will use a combination of analytical, computational and experimental tools to investigate the dynamics of elastic structures coupled to a complex fluid. Accurate and robust numerical methods for viscoelastic fluids coupled to moving and flexible boundaries will be developed that build upon classical immersed boundary methods and particle methods previously designed for Newtonian fluids. Continuum descriptions of the viscoelastic fluid will be implemented, as well as models that track discrete viscoelastic microstructure of the fluid. While the methods developed will be widely applicable, the team will focus upon the biofluidmechanics of reproduction, nematode motility in microfluidic chambers, as well as mucus-ciliary transport. Computational models will be coordinated with physical and biological experiments performed at the Applied Mathematics Lab at the Courant Institute. |
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2007 — 2013 | Zhang, Jun (co-PI) [⬀] Shelley, Michael |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
@ New York University The proposal utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to study the locomotion of C. elegans and their sensory response to environmental variations. C. elegans is one of the mostly studied model animals in biology due to its genetic tractability, sequenced genome, simple anatomy and body transparency. It is also a superb system to study mobility and sensing. This project will use C. elegans as a simple model system of living organisms to obtain critical physical information for understanding the interplay between sensing, locomotion and environment, incorporate this information into theoretical and computational models of undulatory locomotion. |
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2008 — 2012 | Zhang, Jun [⬀] Childress, Stephen Shelley, Michael |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
@ New York University This award will make possible the purchase of a system of Particle Imaging Velocity (PIV), a universal research microscope, a rheometer and a few smaller equipments. With these instrumentations, the investigators will study a number of fluid problems that involve unsteady fluid flows interacting with mobile boundaries. In particular, it is planned to study the free flight of a rigid wing that is flapped at prescribed wave forms. The PIs will address questions related to the generation of thrust at early stages as the wing initiates a unidirectional flight. They will also study the effects of a flapping wing that is able to pitch during its flight, and compare its performance to a non-pitching wing, as well as the instability associated with flapping flags and the mechanism by which forced flags produce different types of wake structures. This experiment will address the question of the connections and differences between a flapping flag and a swimming fish. Moreover, it is well known that fluid pumping and animal locomotion share many common aspects, and can be studied using similar theoretical treatments. The planed study will investigate the transport of fluid using anisotropic geometry (ratchets) and the swimming of a model organism (C. elegans) in viscous fluids. The studies will be extended to complex fluids, since nonlinear responses take place in these systems even at low Reynolds numbers. The requested instrumentations will realize a fundamental improvement at the Applied Mathematics Laboratory (AML), which will allow the investigation of dynamical boundary problems in moving fluids with added precision and flexibility. The research projects will involve scientists at all levels, ranging from faculty members to motivated undergraduate and high-school students. |
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2009 — 2013 | Shelley, Michael | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Collaborative Research: the Analysis and Simulation of Biologically Active Suspensions @ New York University This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). |
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2012 — 2015 | Shelley, Michael | R01Activity Code Description: To support a discrete, specified, circumscribed project to be performed by the named investigator(s) in an area representing his or her specific interest and competencies. |
Understanding Mitotic Spindle Positioning by Integrated Modeling and Experiment @ New York University The mitotic spindle forms during cell division and separates chromosomes into the daughter cells. It is required for normal eukaryotic cell division. In most cells, the division plane position and orientation is controlled by spindle position and orientation. However, the force mechanisms underlying spindle positioning are ill-understood. Two alternative models have been proposed. One invokes microtubule interactions with the cell cortex, and the other with the cell cytoplasm. The goal is to discover which model (if not both) is correct by using modeling, simulation, and experiments in C. elegans early embryos. The project team has skills in biophysical theory, experiment, mathematical modeling, and simulation. An essential difference between the two models is whether microtubules interact actively or passively with the cytoplasm, but given the system's complexity it is difficult to discriminate with experiment alone. We will use modeling and simulation to predict cytoplasmic flows associated with each model, and their combinations, and compare these to experimental measurements of actual flows. Detailed hydrodynamic interactions have not been previously accounted for in modeling spindle dynamics, and requires novel methods for efficiently and accurately capturing spindle microtubules interacting with each other, the cytoplasmic fluid, and the cell periphery. We will compare the predicted dynamics to new experimental measurements that simultaneously capture spindle structure and dynamics, and cytoplasmic motions. Comparisons will be made between predicted and observed responses under physical, molecular, and genetic perturbations. Intellectual Merit: The proposed work will bring a new approach to modeling mitotic spindle dynamics and positioning. The integrated experimental and theoretical approach will enable new insights into the mechanisms of positioning and asymmetric cell division. The project will contribute to the broader efforts to understand the mitotic spindle and cell division, a long-standing fundamental problem in cell biology. This work will expand technical knowledge in cellular biology, biophysics, experimental technique, statistical physics, applied math, fluid dynamics, partial differential equations, and numerical analysis. |
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2015 — 2018 | Ristroph, Leif (co-PI) [⬀] Zhang, Jun (co-PI) [⬀] Shelley, Michael |
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@ New York University Soft active materials are collections of particles, cells, or molecules that are capable of converting chemical energy from their environment into motion and mechanical stresses. Examples include swimming microorganisms, cellular extracts, biological polymers, and molecular motors, as well as a wealth of synthetic particles designed to mimic biological systems. These active systems, which have generated considerable excitement over the last decade in many disciplines from engineering to physics to applied mathematics, evince behaviors that are fundamentally different from traditional passive materials, and their understanding is just beginning to illuminate long-standing problems in biology and to suggest new engineering devices. This research project aims to use experiments, modeling, and simulations, to further enhance understanding of a variety of active materials. The project will also involve training through research involvement of postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates. |
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2016 — 2019 | Francfort, Gilles Shelley, Michael |
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Collaborative Research: Fracture in Soft Organic Solids -the Variational View @ New York University This award supports a research collaboration on mathematical and numerical modeling and analysis of failure in soft materials. This research project concerns the derivation and numerical implementation of a mathematical theory capable of describing, explaining, and predicting the initiation and propagation of fracture in soft organic solids---namely, solids made up of networks of long carbon-based macromolecules such as elastomers, gels, and biological tissues---when subjected to arbitrarily large mechanical forces. Soft organic solids are known to fracture in a very different manner than standard hard solids (such as metals and ceramics). The defining difference is that internal fracture in soft organic solids initiates through the sudden growth of inherent defects into large enclosed cavities/cracks (a phenomenon popularly referred to as cavitation). With the ever-increasing use of soft materials in new technologies, a fundamental and quantitative understanding of when and how organic solids fracture is of utmost importance for their advancement. Likewise, such a fundamental and quantitative understanding is critical in advancing medical treatments involving soft biological tissues, such as shock-wave lithotripsy, or treatments dealing with aneurysms. |
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2016 — 2021 | Perlin, Kenneth (co-PI) [⬀] Shelley, Michael Plass, Jan (co-PI) [⬀] Burleson, Winslow [⬀] Roginska, Agnieszka (co-PI) [⬀] |
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@ New York University This project, developing a distributed instrument to physically integrate seamlessly the physical with the virtual, aims to create a unique experiential supercomputer, an immersive, collaborative, virtual/physical research environment with unparalleled tools for intellectual and creative output, a Holodeck that scientifically exceeds Star Trek science fiction. The work should advance the next-generation experiences in human interaction and deep integration of virtual and physical settings, creating rich actualizing environments to support research and discovery of new paradigms. The flexible, modular, reconfigurable infrastructure will connect researchers, research, and educational facilities across the university, the NYU Global Network University (GNU), and external researchers, communities, and industry partners worldwide. The instrument will enable exploration of a myriad of research questions involving virtual environments, telepresence, collaborative engagement, and remote interaction and create a strong foundation for extended collaborations. The project integrates qualitative and quantitative assessment of affect and motivation, with foundations of learning science, motion science, acoustics, modeling and simulation, robotics and fabrication to improve research effectiveness and scalability to address real world challenges. |
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2016 — 2019 | Shelley, Michael | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
@ New York University Active cellular matter is the basis of novel synthetic active fluids made of mixtures of suspended cytoskeletal filaments and molecular motors. By consuming chemical fuel, the molecular motors (e.g., kinesins) can bind to and create actively moving crosslinks between the biofilaments (e.g., microtubules) to drive their relative motion, which leads to large-scale collective motions in the filament/motor mixture through hydrodynamic coupling. Synthetic active suspensions made of small numbers of components reveal how higher-order aspects of assembly and organization are built in living cells. These systems also present new challenges to our understanding, design, and analysis of materials, and have the potential to provide valuable new technologies such as autonomously moving and self-healing materials. |
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2020 — 2023 | Shelley, Michael | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Collaborative Research: Multiscale Engineering of Active Stress in Biomaterials @ New York University Nontechnical Abstract: |
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