Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160100742

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE160100742

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Biofilms in two-dimensional turbulent flows:effects on Lagrangian transport. This project aims to investigate how surface biofilms affect flows at the ocean surface. Great stretches of the ocean surface are covered by an organic microlayer called biofilm. Flows at the ocean surface are a crucial part of climate machinery, and biofilms have profound, largely unexplored effects on these flows. There is no fundamental understanding of how biofilms affect fluid motion. This project aims to use laboratory models and new measurement techniques to study and quantify the impact of biofilms on turbulent transport. Understanding these effects is important in a time of climate change and this knowledge may also help address environmental issues related to spreading of pollutants and flow control at the ocean surface.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-2016

End Date: 12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $315,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Classical Physics | Fluid Physics | Complex Physical Systems

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water not elsewhere classified |

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