Second Internation Conference on Porous Media and its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry

国家科学基金项目编号：CTS-0616554主要研究者： Vafai，KambizAffiliation： 加州大学河滨分校提案名称：第二届国际多孔介质及其在科学、工程和工业中的应用会议该奖项将为定于2007年6月18日至22日在夏威夷考艾岛举行的第二届国际多孔介质及其在科学、工程和工业中的应用会议提供部分资金。 第一届多孔介质及其在科学、工程和工业中的应用会议于1996年在夏威夷的科纳举行。 会议得到了国家科学基金会的部分支持，多孔介质领域的国际研究人员参加了会议。 即将召开的会议将于2007年6月18日至22日在夏威夷的考艾岛举行，会议将以科纳会议为基础，重点关注当前活跃的领域。会议具有重要的学术价值，因为多孔介质流动和输送在当代技术中的广泛应用中发生，并且是一个有许多未解答问题的主题。 这些应用包括但不限于诸如地热工程、建筑热绝缘、化学催化反应器、填充的低温微球绝缘、石油储层、直接接触热交换器、煤燃烧器、核废料储存库、热管技术和生物运输等领域。 颗粒固体的填充床在化学和冶金工程中具有应用，涉及诸如催化和色谱反应器、填充吸收和蒸馏塔、离子交换柱、填充过滤器、球型热交换器、石油储层和地热储层的系统。 会议将强调新兴领域，如多孔介质中的生物运输。NSF的资金将广泛影响美国技术界，因为它们将主要用于抵消美国与会者的差旅费。 大约40%的项目资金将用于年轻的教师和研究生，其余的将用于更高级的特邀演讲者和委员会成员。 会议成果将通过在会议记录中包括论文和主题演讲，并在《多孔介质杂志》的特刊上发表会议的一些优秀论文来广泛传播。

ABSTRACTNational Science FoundationProposal Number: CTS-0616554Principal Investigator: Vafai, KambizAffiliation: University of California-RiversideProposal Title: Second International Conference on Porous Media and its Applications in Science, Engineering, and IndustryThis award will provide partial funding for the Second International Conference on Porous Media and its Applications in Science, Engineering, and Industry scheduled for June 18-22, 2007 in Kauai, Hawaii. The first Conference on Porous Media and its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry was held in 1996 in Kona, Hawaii. It was partly supported by NSF and was attended by an international contingent of researchers working in the porous media field. The upcoming conference, to be held in Kauai, Hawaii on June 18-22, 2007, will build on the Kona conference with emphasis on currently active areas.The conference has significant Intellectual Merit because porous media flow and transport occur in a wide range of applications in contemporary technology and is a topic with many unanswered questions. These applications include, but are not restricted to, areas such as geothermal engineering, building thermal insulation, chemical catalytic reactors, packed cryogenic microsphere insulation, petroleum reservoirs, direct contact heat exchangers, coal combustors, nuclear waste repositories, heat pipe technology, and bio transport. Packed beds of particulate solids have applications in chemical and metallurgical engineering involving such systems as catalytic and chromatographic reactors, packed absorption and distillation towers, ion exchange columns, packed filters, pebble-type heat exchanger, petroleum reservoirs, and geothermal reservoirs. The conference will emphasize emerging areas such as biotransport in porous media.The funds from NSF will broadly impact the U.S. technical community because they will be utilized primarily to offset the travel costs for US participants. About 40% of the project funds will go to young faculty and graduate students, with the balance going to more senior invited speakers and committee members. The conference outcomes will be broadly disseminated by including papers and keynotes in conference proceedings, and publishing some of the outstanding papers from the conference in a special issue of the Journal of Porous Media.