Who funds fluid dynamics research?

We count 132 funded fluid dynamics projects, active between 2020 and 2032, from 5 funders. The most came from EU · ERC (64 projects), EU · MSCA (25 projects) and NSF · GEO (8 projects). The median award is $1.6M, across the 129 of 132 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

132

Funders

5

Median award

$1.6M

Open calls now

0

Top funders of fluid dynamics research

Projects whose title or summary mentions fluid dynamics. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open fluid dynamics funding calls

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Funded fluid dynamics projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• Collaborative Research: Convective and Shear Instability as Pathways to Turbulence in Internal Solitary Waves
  NSF · GEO · $2,294,845 · ends 2031
• STC: Transformative Explorations in Multi-Physics and Engineering of Scientific Turbulence (TEMPEST)
  NSF · Office of the Director · $30,000,000 · ends 2031
• Nature's Resistance: Quantifying ecological roughness for enhanced flow prediction in rivers
  UKRI · NERC · £799,421 · ends 2031
• Quantum Computing Approach for Predicting Extreme Atmospheric Events
  NSF · GEO · $266,449 · ends 2031
• CAREER: Improving Data Efficiency in Deep Learning with Relaxed Symmetry Constraints
  NSF · CISE · $600,000 · ends 2030
• CAREER: The Large-scale Buffering of Shallow Cloud Perturbations
  NSF · GEO · $1,053,327 · ends 2030
• AIMing: Automated Discovery for Structure-Preserving Discretizations
  NSF · MPS · $750,000 · ends 2029
• Critical Systems in Random Geometry
  UKRI · UKRI FLF · £551,964 · ends 2029
• Wall Similarity of 2D and 3D Non-Equilibrium Rough Wall Boundary Layers
  UKRI · EPSRC · £673,347 · ends 2029
• Excellence in Research: From Geometry to Flow: Predicting Wind Turbulence in Realistic Urban Neighborhoods
  NSF · ENG · $696,138 · ends 2029

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “turbulence or fluid dynamics”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.