Interactive Undergraduate Fluid Dynamics

建议编号：CTS-0645836/0645846 PRINCIPAL调查人员：C.Rowley/C.ROGERSINSTUTION：普林斯顿大学/塔夫茨大学交互本科生流体动力学这笔赠款将为建立一个最先进的工具包的努力提供部分援助，使教师能够快速、轻松地将动手实验和分析整合到流体力学课堂和课程中。研究人员将把一群敬业的教职员工和研究人员聚集在一起，参加一系列的两次研讨会，以帮助开发这种能力。他们将举办两个为期两天的研讨会，每隔一年，有10-15人参加。在第一个研讨会中，他们将制定工具集的愿景，开发关键里程碑，并分配完成开发所需的任务。在第二个研讨会中，他们将把所有已完成的工具集合在一起，并开发一种维持和发展工具集的方法。该工具集将包括一系列实验、附带的模拟以及一系列建议的传感器以及数据采集和分析工具。在最终的工具集中，他们将拥有进行定量实验、开发基于物理的分析模型以及实现模拟和实验之间的定量比较所需的所有部件。这种方法的智力价值是通过开发简单的实验和配套的模拟工具来促进大学课堂上的动手学习。汇聚全国“最优秀、最聪明”的流体力学教师，将提供一个获取广泛创新实验和分析的机会。拟议工作的更广泛影响是改变了流体力学的教学方式--从一门工程科学课程，要求学生广泛解决数学问题(使用大量简化的问题)，变成一门工程课程，让学生自己建模并简化问题。EFluids门户网站将被用作传播工具--该网站面向1,000多名流体力学教师，每月访问量超过25,000次，访问量超过500,000,000次。

PROPOSAL NO.: CTS-0645836/0645846PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: C. ROWLEY / C. ROGERSINSTITUTION: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY / TUFTS UNIVERSITY Interactive Undergraduate Fluid DynamicsThis grant will provide partial assistance for an effort to build a state-of-the-art toolset that will allow faculty to quickly and easily integrate hands-on experimentation and analysis into the fluid mechanics classroom and curriculum. The investigators will bring together a group of dedicated faculty and researchers in a series of two workshops to help develop this capability. They will host two 2-day workshops, one year apart, for 10-15 participants. In the first workshop they will lay down the vision of the toolset, develop the key milestones, and assign the tasks required to bring the development to closure. In the second workshop, they will bring together all the completed tools and develop a method of sustaining and growing the toolset. This toolset will be a combination of a gallery of experiments, accompanying simulations, and a selection of suggested sensors and data acquisition and analysis tools. In the final toolset, they will have all the pieces needed to conduct quantitative experiments, develop analytical models based on physics, and enable a quantitative comparison between simulation and experiment. The intellectual merit of this approach is to promote hands-on learning in the college classroom through the development of simple experiments and accompanying simulation tools. Bringing together the "best and brightest" of the fluid mechanics faculty across the country, will provide an opportunity to capture a broad range of innovative experiments and analysis. The broader impact of the proposed work is to change the way fluid mechanics is taught - from an engineering science course with extensive mathematics problem solving (using grossly simplified problems) to an engineering course with students modeling and simplifying the problems themselves. The eFluids portal will be used as a dissemination tool - this website reaches over 1,000 fluid mechanics faculty with over 25,000 monthly visits and over 5,000,000.