Workshop: A Workshop on Friction: A Grand Challenge at the Interface of Solid and Fluid Mechanics, to be held in Hilton Head, South Carolina March 2009

这个研讨会将于2009年3月在南卡罗来纳州的希尔顿海德举行。工作坊：关于摩擦的工作坊：固体力学和流体力学界面的重大挑战。一个巨大的挑战在于制定统一的分析技术，通过动量/能量传递和热过程来解决摩擦，导致有用动能转移到原子到连续体尺度的寄生过程，而不考虑界面两侧的介质。提高对摩擦多种来源的理解和建模，是旨在减少人类发展和交通对环境影响的技术的重要组成部分，包括减少磨损、噪音和/或振动、提高传动效率、减少湍流表面摩擦以提高车辆效率、改进模型和控制城市大气风对污染物扩散的影响。环境，以提高对环境物理和气候现象的理解，如冰原发展和冰川融化。

This Workshop will be held in Hilton Head, South Carolina - March 2009. Workshop: A Workshop on Friction: A Grand Challenge at the interface of Solid and Fluid Mechanics. A grand challenge lies in the formulation of unified analysis techniques addressing friction through the momentum/energy transfer and thermal processes leading to the diversion of useful kinetic energy to parasitic processes on atomic to continuum scales, irrespective of the media on either side of the interface.Improved understanding and modeling of the multiple origins of friction form a vital component of technologies aimed at reducing the environmental impact of human development and transportation, ranging from reduced wear, noise and/or vibration, increased transmission efficiency, turbulent skin friction reduction for increased vehicle efficiency, improved models and control of pollutant dispersion by atmospheric winds in urban ?rough? environments to advanced understanding of environmental physics and climate phenomena such as ice-field development and glacier melting.