Travel Grant for the sixth international workshop in interfacial fluid mechanics and transport processes-IMA 6. Haifa, Israel on June 18-21, 2012

1159143 Narayanan智能优点：该提案要求为参加2012年6月18日至21日在以色列海法理工学院园区举行的第六届国际物理化学、材料和生物过程热、流体和界面现象国际研讨会和会议的10名美国科学家提供部分旅费。参加这次会议对美国来说至关重要，因为来自世界各地的科学家将齐聚一堂，交流想法，并为未来的工作寻求潜在的合作。这种思想交流很可能会发展出新的想法来解决当前的研究问题。将解决材料加工、纳米技术和药物输送以及空间技术方面的研究问题。本次会议的主题包括两个方面：1)工业和实际应用(例如，热管和蒸发的能量问题、两相流动、薄膜材料加工、微流体、涉及界面的新型加工中的流体传输和热物理性质的测量)。2)基本传输现象(例如，液桥中的界面不稳定性、Marangoni现象、两个流体问题、界面质量交换等)。参与研究的科学家将代表由NSF通过化学、生物工程、环境和运输系统(CBET)资助的研究领域。这些科学家将代表学术界、工业界和政府的研究。更广泛的影响：广泛的参与者预计将有利于美国与其他国家之间的合作科学项目以及大学/工业合作。会议记录还将由著名期刊《欧洲物理学杂志》发表。这些研究思想将通过图书馆和电子媒体广泛传播，对科学家和工程师群体产生广泛影响。发表的研究思路和讨论将鼓励未来对技术问题进行新颖的研究和新的视角。

1159143NarayananIntellectual Merit: This proposal requests for partial travel support for 10 participating U.S. scientists to attend the sixth international workshop and conference on thermal, fluid and interfacial phenomena in physico-chemical, materials and bio- processes at the Technion campus in Haifa, Israel on June 18-21, 2012. Participation in this conference is vital to the U.S. since scientists from around the world will meet to exchange ideas and seek potential collaborations for future work. This exchange of ideas will very likely develop new ideas to tackle current research problems. Research problems in materials processing, nanotechnologies and drug delivery as well as space technologies will be addressed. The themes of this conference are two-fold:1) industrial and practical applications (e.g., energy problems of heat pipes and evaporation, two phase flows, materials processing of thin films, and in micro-fluidics, fluid transport in novel processing involving interfaces and measurement of thermo-physical properties. 2) fundamental transport phenomena (e.g., interfacial instabilities in liquid bridges, Marangoni phenomena, two fluid problems, interfacial mass exchange and more.The participating scientists will represent research areas funded by NSF through the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET). The scientists will represent academia, industry and government research. Broader Impacts: The wide range of participants will be expected to benefit the cooperative science programs between the U.S. and other countries as well as university/industrial collaborations. The proceedings of the conference will also be published by a well-known journal, the European Journal of Physics. The research ideas will be widely disseminated via libraries and the electronic media making a broad impact on the community of scientists and engineers. The published research ideas and discussions will encourage future novel research and fresh perspectives on technological problems.