Collaborative Research: A Collaborative Proposal for Supporting US Participation in ICMMES-2014 (New York City, USA, July 14 - 18, 2014)

该提案寻求资金，以支付来自美国机构的研究生、博士后研究人员和初级教职员工参加将于2014年7月14日至18日在纽约城市大学举行的工程与科学介观方法国际会议的部分旅费。这次会议的主要学术价值在于交流科学思想，介绍前沿研究，并接触到流体动力学介观领域丰富多样的一系列主题。会议组织是为了直接回应人们对在纳米或微系统和生物系统中观察到的多尺度和多物理现象的日益增长的兴趣，以及计算科学对这些学科研究的日益重要。ICMMES系列会议的主题包括基于介观和动力学方法的建模和数值方案及其在以下领域的分析和应用：(I)计算流体动力学(CFD)，包括直接数值模拟(DNS)、大涡模拟(LES)和湍流建模；(Ii)复杂流体和软物质的流变学，如生物流体、悬浮液、多相和多组分流体、非牛顿流体、电流变(ER)和磁流变(MR)流体(SMART流体)；(Iii)涉及非连续、表面主导、低雷诺数的纳米尺度现象；(Iv)非牛顿、多尺度和多物理效应。(V)多尺度和多物理的计算方法，如(湍流)流-结构相互作用和热化学非平衡流、反应流和燃烧、辐射换热；(Vi)并行高性能计算(PHPC)的工程应用算法；(Vii)特殊计算机硬件(例如，通用图形处理单元或GPGPU)。会议将促进研究人员之间的思想交流，并将在不久的将来解决该领域发展所涉及的挑战。这笔财政支持将用于增加美国学生和年轻科学家的参与，否则他们将负担不起参加会议的费用和相关费用。将特别考虑代表性不足的少数群体、妇女、残疾人，以及历史上黑人学院和大学(HBCU)和西班牙裔服务机构(HSII)中的那些人。

The proposal seeks funds to partially cover travel expenses of graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and junior faculty members from institutions in the United States to participate in the International Conference for Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science (ICMMES) that will be held July 14-18, 2014 at CUNY in New York City. The main intellectual merit of this conference lies in the exchange of scientific ideas, presentations of cutting edge research, and exposure to a richly diverse array of topics in the area of mesoscopic of fluid dynamics. The conference organization is in direct response to the growing interest in multi-scale and multi-physics phenomena observed in nano- or micro-systems and biological systems, and the increasing importance of computational science to research in these disciplines. The conference will be attended by both prominent and young scientists in fluid dynamics from around the world.Topics for the ICMMES conference series include modeling and numerical schemes based on mesoscopic and kinetic methods and their analysis and applications to areas that include (i) Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), including direct numerical simulations (DNS), large-eddy simulations (LES), and turbulence modeling;(ii) Rheology for complex fluids and soft matter such as bio-fluids, suspensions, multi-phase and multi-component fluids, non-Newtonian fluids, and electro-rheological (ER) and magnetorheological (MR) fluids (smart fluids);(iii) Nano-scale phenomena involving non-continuum, surface-dominated, low-Reynolds-number, (iv) non-Newtonian, multi-scale and multi-physics effects. Examples are complex flows through porous media, gaseous flows in micro-devices, electrokinetic-capillary phenomena and droplets and bubbles in micro-fluidics; (v) Computational methods for multi-scale and multi-physics such as (turbulent) flow-structure interactions and thermo-chemically nonequilibrium flows, reactive flows and combustion, and radiation heat transfer; (vi) Algorithms for parallel high performance computing (PHPC) with engineering applications;(vii) Special computer hardware (e.g., general purpose graphic processing units or GPGPUs).The conference will foster cross-fertilization of ideas among researchers and will address challenges involved in advancing the field in the near future. The financial support will be used to increase participation of US students and young scientists who would not otherwise be able to afford to travel to the meeting and pay associated costs. Special consideration will be given to under-represented minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and those in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIi).