CAREER: Computational Physics for Research and Industry

职业：研究和工业计算物理

• 批准号: 0955700
• 负责人: Vladimir Florinski
• 金额: $ 50.92万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama in Huntsville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-15 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0955700&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Computational; Physics; Research; Industry

The principal investigator (PI) intends to apply his expertise in computational fluid dynamics, space science, and plasma physics, to construct an integrated teaching and research program in computational physics. This project will address the needs of the Huntsville area for an experienced technical workforce by developing a unique educational resource within the Department of Physics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), with support from the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR). The PI's team includes thirteen new faculty members and researchers recently hired by UAH Physics and CSPAR, all of whom are closely involved in computational science research.The PI plans to create a new track in Computational Physics as part of the UAH Master's degree program in the Department of Physics. This curriculum will serve both prospective students and local industry by providing advance training in numerical and supercomputer techniques. The project's research component will include the development of a comprehensive computer model of the Solar System, from Earth to its outer edge and into the surrounding interstellar cloud. This model will address science problems in charged particle acceleration, pickup ions and neutral atoms, the physics of interplanetary turbulence, the transport of cosmic rays, and solar wind interaction with the interstellar medium. In addition, the PI will develop new supercomputing technologies, including graphic processor-based computing, using UAH's existing 400-core computing cluster, and eventually larger supercomputer resources expected to be available in the future.

首席研究员拟运用其在计算流体动力学、空间科学和等离子体物理方面的专业知识，构建一个计算物理的综合教学和研究计划。该项目将通过在亨茨维尔阿拉巴马大学物理系（UAH）内开发独特的教育资源，在UAH空间等离子体和航空研究中心（CSPAR）的支持下，解决亨茨维尔地区对经验丰富的技术劳动力的需求。PI的团队包括最近由UAH物理系和CSPAR聘请的13名新教员和研究人员，他们都密切参与计算科学研究。PI计划在UAH物理系的硕士学位课程中开设计算物理学的新课程。该课程将通过提供数字和超级计算机技术方面的高级培训，为未来的学生和当地行业提供服务。该项目的研究部分将包括开发一个全面的太阳系计算机模型，从地球到它的外缘，再到周围的星际云。该模型将解决带电粒子加速、拾取离子和中性原子、行星际湍流的物理学、宇宙射线的传输以及太阳风与星际介质的相互作用等科学问题。此外，PI将开发新的超级计算技术，包括基于图形处理器的计算，使用UAH现有的400核计算集群，并最终在未来提供更大的超级计算机资源。