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

1159143NarayananIntellectual Merit：本提案要求为参加第六届国际研讨会和会议的10名美国科学家提供部分旅费支持，该研讨会和会议将于2012年6月18日至21日在以色列海法的以色列理工学院校园举行，主题是物理化学、材料和生物过程中的热、流体和界面现象。参加这次会议对美国至关重要，因为来自世界各地的科学家将会面交流思想，并为未来的工作寻求潜在的合作。这种思想的交流很可能会产生新的思想来解决当前的研究问题。在材料加工、纳米技术和药物输送以及空间技术方面的研究问题将得到解决。本次会议的主题是双重的：1)工业和实际应用（例如，热管和蒸发的能量问题，两相流，薄膜材料加工，微流体，涉及界面和热物理性质测量的新型加工中的流体输送）。2)基本输运现象（如：液体桥的界面不稳定性、Marangoni现象、两种流体问题、界面质量交换等）。参与的科学家将代表由美国国家科学基金会通过化学、生物工程、环境和运输系统部（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：广泛的参与者将有望使美国与其他国家之间的合作科学项目以及大学/工业合作受益。会议论文集也将在著名的《欧洲物理杂志》上发表。研究思路将通过图书馆和电子媒体广泛传播，对科学家和工程师社区产生广泛影响。发表的研究思想和讨论将鼓励未来对技术问题进行新颖的研究和新的观点。

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.