Primary Recipient

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Amount

$82,000.00

Award Date

8/27/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Nature displays a prodigious diversity of propulsion mechanisms in fluid systems. We have discovered a remarkable new one that operates in density-stratified environments. The underlying mechanism is a little-studied phenomenon, diffusion-driven flow, fir