Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP120101322
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Designing polymer additives to control breakup of jets and impacting drops. Current agricultural spraying of pesticides is inefficient, causing serious environmental contamination. The project aims to design polymeric additives to control the fluid dynamics of spraying so that drops reach, and then adhere to their target leaf surfaces.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2012
End Date: 12-2016
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $320,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Rheology | Interdisciplinary Engineering | Computational Fluid Dynamics | Fluidisation and Fluid Mechanics
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering |
