Conference support: XVIth International Workshop on Numerical Methods for Non-Newtonian Flows, Northampton, MA

会议支持：第十六届非牛顿流数值方法国际研讨会，马萨诸塞州北安普顿

• 批准号: 1018988
• 负责人: Michael Graham
• 金额: $ 0.5万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1018988&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; support; XVIth; International; Workshop

AbstractThe International Workshops on Numerical Methods in Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics have been held roughly biennially, alternating between North America and Europe since 1979. This proposal is for partial support of the sixteenth workshop in this series. The funds will primarily be used for travel support for young researchers, researchers from under-represented groups in science, as well as researchers who have not previously been part of the community. This support will broaden participation in the Non-Newtonian flows community and maintain its intellectual vitality by bringing in new members. Intellectual Merit: The primary motivation for the original workshop in 1979 was the recognition in the community that the mathematical models that had been developed to describe flowing complex fluids (specifically polymer solutions and melts) were much more difficult to solve computationally than were more traditional flow problems with Newtonian or generalized Newtonian fluids. Modeling of such fluids is important for applications ranging from polymer processing to blood flow in biomedical devices. Topics covered in recent workshops include numerical methods for solution of the differential or integrodifferential equations arising from continuum models of flowing complex fluids as well as also mathematical analysis of models of flowing complex fluids and the phenomenological and statistical mechanical framework for describing them. Additionally, an important aspect of the workshops in recent years has been mesoscopic and multiscale simulation methods. Finally, we emphasize that the workshop addresses not just numerical methods but also the physical phenomena and engineering processes whose prediction and understanding motivate those methods. Despite the name of the workshop, presentations of experimental work are essential, as motivation and validation for the newest generations of methods.Broader Impacts: This series of workshops is truly international attendees from 12 nations around the world are already registered for the present workshop. The informal format, and in particular the fact that attendees all eat meals together promotes close interaction between them. The travel grants provided through this grant will promote participation from young people and members of underrepresented groups in science. The selection process for the grants will also give weight to applicants whose primary research field has not been non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, with the aim of achieving intellectual growth in the field by cross-fertilization of ideas brought by researchers from outside the field. Dissemination of the advances reported in the workshop will be achieved via a special issue of Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics and manuscripts that will contain peer-reviewed articles based on research presented at the workshop.

摘要自1979年以来，非牛顿流体力学数值方法国际研讨会大约每两年举行一次，在北美和欧洲轮流举行。本提案是对本系列第十六次讲习班的部分支持。这些资金将主要用于为年轻研究人员、来自科学领域代表性不足的群体的研究人员以及以前没有加入社区的研究人员提供差旅支持。这种支持将扩大非牛顿流体社区的参与，并通过引入新成员来保持其智力活力。智力优势： 1979年最初的研讨会的主要动机是在社区中认识到，已经开发的数学模型来描述流动的复杂流体（特别是聚合物溶液和熔体）更难以计算解决比牛顿或广义牛顿流体的更传统的流动问题。这种流体的建模对于从聚合物加工到生物医学设备中的血液流动的应用是重要的。在最近的研讨会所涵盖的主题包括数值方法所产生的流动复杂流体的连续模型的微分或integodifferential方程的解决方案，以及数学分析模型的流动复杂流体和现象学和统计力学框架来描述它们。此外，近年来研讨会的一个重要方面是介观和多尺度模拟方法。最后，我们强调，该研讨会不仅涉及数值方法，而且还涉及物理现象和工程过程，其预测和理解激发了这些方法。尽管讲习班的名称，实验工作的介绍是必不可少的，作为动机和验证的最新一代的方法。更广泛的影响：这一系列的讲习班是真正的国际与会者来自世界各地的12个国家已经注册参加本次讲习班。 非正式的形式，特别是与会者一起吃饭的事实，促进了他们之间的密切互动。通过这笔赠款提供的旅费赠款将促进青年人和代表性不足的群体成员参与科学。赠款的选择过程也将考虑其主要研究领域不是非牛顿流体力学的申请人，目的是通过该领域外研究人员带来的想法的交叉施肥来实现该领域的智力增长。 将通过一期《非牛顿流体力学杂志》特刊和根据讲习班上介绍的研究成果撰写的经同行审查的文章的手稿，传播讲习班上报告的进展。