ROW: Application of Fluid Dynamics & Geochemistry: The Essence of Processes in the Earth's Crust. A Learning Experience in Fluid Flow.

建议将流体动力学、传热学和传质原理与矿物和水化学知识相结合。最终，这将导致一种关于流体流动引起的状态条件变化引起的矿物和流体行为的综合方法，以及这些过程的物理表现。识别和量化流体循环中的主导因素，使人们能够预测和描述哪里将发生最激烈的流体矿物反应。流体动力学的集成有望带来新的创新的勘探方法和流体-矿物系统的前沿发现。拟议的活动旨在获得动态流体系统的深入工作知识，获得必要的技能以将研究计划扩展到该领域，并开发适用于这些系统的创新研究方法。活动将集中于与流体运动有关的过程和机制，强调描述输运理论的概念，流体动力学的物理学，形式化问题所需的数学工具和结构，以及获得和可视化结果所需的计算和数值技术。流体动力学与传统的矿物学方法以及水相地球化学和不可逆热力学的理论方法相结合，将能够更全面地解释和预测流体流动引起的化学变化。

It is proposed to incorporate principles of fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer with knowledge of mineral and aqueous chemistry. Ultimately, this will lead to an integrated approach concerning the behavior of minerals and fluids resulting from changes in state conditions caused by fluid flow, and the physical manifestation of such processes. Identification and quantification of the dominate factors involved in fluid circulation allows one to predict and describe where the most vigorous fluid mineral reactions will occur. Integration of fluid dynamics will hopefully lead to new innovative methods of exploration and frontiers of discovery in fluid-mineral systems. The proposed activities are designed to obtain an indepth working knowledge of dynamic fluid systems, to acquire necessary skills to expand the research program into this area, and to develop innovative research methods applicable to these systems. Activities will concentrate on processes and mechanisms associated with fluid motion, emphasis of concepts describing transport theory, the physics of fluid dynamics, the mathematical tools and constructs required to formalize the problem, and the computational and numerical techniques necessary to obtain and visualize the results. Integration of fluid dynamics, with traditional mineralogic approaches and theoretical methods from aqueous geochemistry and irreversible thermodynamics, will more fully permit the explanation and prediction of chemical alteration caused by flow of fluids.