Acquisition of a Simulation and Visualization Facility for Fluid Dynamics Research

该核磁共振奖将支持在Courant研究所购买用于计算流体动力学和可视化研究、研究培训和教育的设备。我们的目标是在我们新的应用数学实验室（AML）内创建一个最先进的模拟和可视化中心，该实验室致力于流体动力学模拟和可视化的教育和研究培训。这些设备将由从事研究所流体动力学研究各个领域的研究小组共享，并与这些研究小组拥有的当前和未来的计算和可视化设施相结合。计划中的仪器包括计算机、大容量存储系统、投影设备、网络增强、第三方软件许可和其他小型项目。在该设施中进行的研究和研究培训致力于理解生物物理学、地球物理学和能源研究以及基本流体动力学中出现的复杂的二维和三维流体流动，以及流体动力学计算和可视化的教育。所要求的仪器的一个主要受益者是新的应用数学实验室，目前正在建设在沃伦·韦弗大厅的底层。AML由两个组件组成，Wetlab和ViSLab。Wetlab是一个流体力学的演示和研究实验室。ViSLab（可视化和仿真实验室）是相关的计算设施。AML设施旨在将研究与研究培训和教育相结合，并将计算，可视化和实验研究与研究培训和指导相结合。将使用拟议仪器的研究活动包括昆虫飞行的模拟、复杂流体动力学的计算研究、心脏的流体动力学、聚变科学和太阳物理学的三维流体动力学建模、地球物理流动和复杂几何中的气动流动研究。通过目前的提案，它将为我们的学生提供访问大规模的仿真平台和现代化的可视化和动画硬件和软件。这项研究工作将由数学科学部、MPS多学科活动办公室和MRI项目共同资助。

This MRI award will support the purchase of equipment for research, research training, and education in computational fluid dynamics and visualization, at the Courant Institute. The aim is to create a state-of-the-art simulation and visualization center within our new Applied Mathematics Laboratory (AML), which is dedicated to education and research training in fluid dynamical simulation and visualization. The equipment will be shared by research groups engaged in various areas of fluid dynamics research at the Institute, and integrated with the present and future computational and visualization facilities owned by these research groups. The planned instrumentation includes computers, a mass storage system, projection facilities, network enhancements, third-party software licenses, and miscellaneous smaller items. . The research and research training to be conducted in the facility is dedicated to understanding complicated fluid flows - 2- and 3-dimensional - arising in biophysics, geophysics, and energy research as well as basic fluid dynamics, and to education in fluid dynamical computation and visualization. A major beneficiary of the requested instrumentation is the new Applied Mathematics Laboratory now under construction on the ground floor of Warren Weaver Hall. The AML is comprised of two components, the Wetlab and the ViSLab. The Wetlab is a demonstration and research laboratory of fluid mechanics. The ViSLab (Visualization and Simulation Laboratory) is the associated computational facility. The AML facility is designed to integrate research with research training and education, and to synthesize computation, visualization, and experimental research with research training and instruction. Research activities that will use the proposed instrumentation include the simulation of insect flight, computational studies of the dynamics of complex fluids, the fluid dynamics of the heart, three-dimensional niagnetohydrodynamic modelling for fusion science and solar physics, geophysical flows, and study of aerodynamic flow in complicated geometry. Through the present proposal it will provide our students with access to large-scale simulation platforms and to modern visualization and animation hardware and software. This research effort will be funded jointly by the Division of Mathematical Science, the MPS Office of Multidisciplinary Activities, and the MRI Program.