Career: Interfacial Phenomena Associated with Complex NAPLs in Subsurface Systems

9501567权力这是一个奖项，以提供支持这一调查要求在响应NSF 94-101，国家科学基金会教师早期职业发展（CAREER）计划，其目的是鼓励学术教师作为教育工作者和研究人员的早期发展。 本研究计划进行的研究是针对提高我们的理解非水相液体截留和溶解过程中的非均质地下系统，制定进行数学模型和实验验证，以测试假设描述的溶解过程。 她的教育计划包括使用研究结果来制定开放式问题，并将其作为为学生提供体验式学习机会的基础。 结果预计将提供一个更基本的了解与运动的非水流体通过多孔介质的现象比现在存在的改善修复过程和系统的工程设计中使用的模型，这些类型的流体污染的土壤去污。 这位研究者计划追求的教学计划很可能会在使用计算机程序作为工程分析和设计工具方面产生创新。 ***

9501567 Powers This is an award to provide the support this investigator requested in response to NSF 94-101, the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program which has the intent of encouraging the early development of academic faculty as educators and researchers. The research this investigator plans to conduct is directed toward improving our understanding of nonaqueous phase liquid entrapment and dissolution processes in heterogeneous subsurface systems, to formulate conduct mathematical models and experimentally verify them to test hypotheses descriptive of the dissolution processes. Her education plan involves using the results of the research to formulate open ended problems and using them as a basis for providing experiential learning opportunities for students. Results are expected to provide a more fundamental understanding of phenomena associated with movement of nonaqueous fluids through porous media than now exists leading to an improvement in models used in engineering design of remediation processes and systems for decontamination of soils contaminated with these types of fluids. The teaching plan this investigator plans to pursue is likely to produce innovations in the use of computer programs as tools for engineering analysis and design. ***