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

国家科学基金提案编号：CTS-0616554主要研究员：瓦法伊，坎比兹隶属：加州大学河滨分校提案标题：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18-22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年在夏威夷科纳举行。它得到了美国国家科学基金会的部分支持，并有一个在多孔介质领域工作的国际研究小组参加了会议。即将于2007年6月18日至22日在夏威夷考艾岛举行的会议将以科纳会议为基础，重点关注当前活跃的领域。会议具有重大的学术价值，因为多孔介质流动和传输在当代技术中的广泛应用中存在，并且是一个有许多悬而未决的问题。这些应用包括但不限于地热工程、建筑物隔热材料、化学催化反应堆、填充式低温微球隔热材料、石油储藏器、直接接触式热交换器、煤炭燃烧器、核废料储存库、热管技术和生物运输。颗粒固体填充床在化学和冶金工程中有广泛的应用，涉及催化和层析反应器、填充吸收和精馏塔、离子交换塔、填充过滤器、鹅卵石热交换器、石油油藏和地热油藏等系统。会议将重点关注新兴领域，如渗透介质中的生物运输。来自NSF的资金将广泛影响美国技术界，因为这些资金将主要用于抵消美国与会者的旅行成本。大约40%的项目资金将分配给年轻的教职员工和研究生，其余的将分配给更资深的受邀演讲者和委员会成员。会议成果将广泛传播，在会议记录中包括论文和主旨，并在《多孔媒体杂志》的特刊上发表一些来自会议的杰出论文。

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.