Novel Numerical Techniques for Complex Fluids Modeling

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。非牛顿流体或复杂流体在我们的日常生活中很丰富。这种流体的实例包括熔融塑料、具有聚合物添加剂的发动机油、油漆、鸡蛋白色和血液。突破性技术可以来自实验或通过利用新的建模方法，这些方法有可能提供对可能过程的快速筛选。更有可能的是，模拟将在提供对突破性技术的基本理解方面发挥更大的作用。捕捉这种基本的理解与模型提供了一个实际的实际操作设备和基本的机械信息之间的连接，并允许一个更现实的评估过程的可行性。模型提供了扩展操作参数空间的基础，并对建造全尺寸的决定和最终设计的性质产生重大影响。精确的设计，有效的实施，并使用数值方法的计算机模拟等重要领域的非牛顿力学将导致显着的应用。计算模型包一旦建立，将供公众使用。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Non-Newtonian fluids or complex fluids are abundant in our daily lives. Examples of such fluids include molten plastics, engine oils with polymeric additives, paints, egg white and blood. Breakthrough technology can come from experiments or through utilization of new modeling methods that have the potential to provide rapid screening of possible processes. More likely is that simulation will play a greater role in providing a fundamental understanding of the breakthrough technology. Capturing this fundamental understanding with models provides the connectivity between an actual practical operating device and fundamental mechanistic information and allows for a more realistic assessment of process viability. Models provide the basis of extending the operating parameter space and have a significant impact on the decision to build the full scale and on the nature of the ultimate design. The accurate design, efficient implementation, and the use of numerical methods for the computer simulation of such important fields as non-Newtonian mechanics will result in significant applications. The computational modeling package, once established, will be made for the public use.