Establishment of a Joint I/UCR Center on Process Modelling

将启动一项计划活动，以确定在麻省理工学院建立过程建模中心的可行性。它的主要任务是建立描述材料加工操作的数学模型，包括气态和熔融状态的材料，包括凝固和气相沉积等相变。这项工作将与固态（即变形加工）的努力有密切的联系，但不会强调材料加工领域的这些方面。这项工作的主要工业客户将包括传统的商品类型生产商，如钢铁、铝和铜；和新技术，如陶瓷复合材料和电子材料。作为该计划的一部分，将探索与里海大学（涵盖固体材料成型和变形的数学建模领域）的合作，以确定建立一个联合中心的可能性，研究气体，液体和固体阶段材料的数学建模。

A planning activity will be initiated to determine the feasibility of establishing a Process Modeling Center at MIT. Its principal mission will be to develop mathematical models describing materials processing operations involving materials in the gaseous and molten state and including phase transitions such as solidification and vapor deposition. This work would have a close interface with solid state (i.e., deformation processing) efforts but would not emphasize these aspects of the materials processing field. The principal industrial customers for this work would include both the traditional commodity-type producers, such as steel, aluminum, and copper; and new technologies, such as ceramics composites and electronic materials. As part of this planning, co-ordination with Lehigh University (covering the areas of mathematical modeling of shaping and deforming of solid materials) will be explored to determine the possibility of establishing a joint center researching mathematical modeling of materials during gaseous, liquid, and solid phases.