Recent Grant Applications
05 February 2010
Professor Gennady Mishuris, IMAPS Professor of Mathematical Modelling appointed within WIMCS initiative, has been recently successful in attracting EU funding in frames of FP7 Programme. Three different research grants where he is a coordinator were favourably evaluated by EU with the help of independent experts and have been selected for financing.
The first institutional grant (acronym HYDROFRAC, around 1.5 mln EURO) entitled “Enhancing hydraulic fracturing on the basis of numerical simulation of coupled geomechanical, hydrodynamic and microseismic processes” in the scheme of Marie Curie Actions—Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP, call FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IAPP) grant will be employed to promote productive collaboration between academia and industry in the area of enhancing hydraulic fracturing on the basis of numerical simulation of coupled geomechanical, hydrodynamic and microseismic processes.
Second grant (Acronym: INTERCRACKS, near 170K EURO) is the so-called a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (IEF, call FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF) entitled “Unsolved problems in fracture mechanics of heterogeneous materials” will support 2 years stay of Dr A. Piccolroaz (Trento, Italy) to deliver in collaboration with Prof Mishuris a multidisciplinary research lying on the border between applied mathematics and fracture mechanics. A wide spectrum of mathematical and numerical techniques will be used to solve problems in both static and dynamic regimes, interfacial cracks propagating along various type of imperfect interphases with emphasis to asymptotic behaviour of the physical solutions near the crack tip.
Finally, the third grant (Acronym: OA AM, approx 230K EURO) is in scheme of Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship (IIF, call FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IIF). Its title is “Articular Contact Mechanics with Application to Early Diagnosis of Osteoarthritis: Asymptotic Modelling of Biomechanical Contact Phenomena Under Dynamic and Impact Loading” aims to investigate articular contact mechanics with application to early diagnosis of osteoarthritis in collaboration with Professor I. Argatov (St. Petersburg, Russia).
The aforementioned grants are now in a stage of negotiation with EU and we hope we will have something to say about in one of the next IMAPS news.
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