Fourth International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels

摘要美国国家科学基金会提案号：cts -0612617首席研究员：Kandlikar， Satish g .隶属机构：罗切斯特理工学院提案题目：第四届纳米通道、微通道和迷你通道国际会议该奖项来自美国国家科学基金会，将为2006年6月19日至21日在爱尔兰利默里克举行的第四届纳米通道、微通道和迷你通道国际会议提供部分资金支持。这笔赠款将为10名全体代表和15名学生代表提供部分旅费，以便利他们参加会议。就学术价值而言，该会议是一个重要的国际论坛，面向来自工程、科学和医学学科的广泛领域的研究人员，他们正在研究小规模内部流动的流动和运输的基础和应用。目前会议的主题包括纳米粒子对输运过程的影响、小尺度下的表面张力效应、小通道中的多相流、新型医疗诊断和药物输送装置以及能量装置中的微通道流。所有这些主题都与美国国家科学基金会的热传输和热加工计划的核心优先领域有关，该计划是资助计划。会议将提供一个交流和传播最新研究成果的论坛，并为不同群体的学生和学术研究人员的参与提供特殊机会，从而产生许多更广泛的影响。

ABSTRACTNational Science FoundationProposal Number: CTS-0612617Principal Investigator: Kandlikar, Satish G.Affiliation: Rochester Institute of TechnologyProposal Title: Fourth International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and MinichannelsThis award from The National Science Foundation will provide partial funding to support the Fourth International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, June 19-21, 2006 in Limerick, Ireland. The grant will provide partial travel stipends to 10 full delegates and 15 student delegates to facilitate their participation in the conference. With respect to intellectual merit, the conference is an important international forum for researchers from a broad cross-section of engineering, science, and medical disciplines who are working on fundamentals and applications of flow and transport in small-scale internal flows. Some of the current topics to be featured in the conference are effects of nanoparticles on transport processes, surface tension effects at small scales, multiphase flows in small channels, novel medical diagnostic and drug delivery devices, and microchannel flows in energy devices. All of these topics are related to core priority areas within the Thermal Transport and Thermal Processing Program of the NSF, the funding program. The conference will have many broader impacts by providing a forum for interaction and dissemination of recent research, as well as by providing special opportunities for the participation of a diverse group of students and academic researchers.