Development of Physical and Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratories for Studies in Crust/Mantle Dynamics

该合同为提供购买流体动力学实验室系统所需设备所需资金的%，该设备将在罗德岛大学海洋研究生院地质系安装、运营和维护。该机构承诺提供此次设备采购所需的剩余资金。板块构造的发展，加上对海底地质过程以及下伏地幔的地球化学和地球物理认识的进步，导致了固体地球是一个活跃循环的系统的观点。将安装在流体动力学实验室的设备将与理论相结合，用于测试各种地壳和地幔动态流动模型。

This award provides 64% of the funds needed to acquire equipment for a fluid dynamics laboratory system that will be installed, operated and maintained in the Department of Geology at the Graduate School of Oceanography of Rhode Island University. The institution is committed to providing the remaining funds required for this equipment purchase. The development of plate tectonics, coupled with advances in understanding of seafloor geological processes and the geochemistry and geophysics of the underlying mantle, has led to the view that the solid earth is a system in active circulation. The equipment to be installed in the fluid dynamics lab will be used, in conjunction with theory, to test various models of crust and mantle dynamic flow.