2020 Flow and Transport in Permeable Media GRC/GRS; Switzerland, July 2020

可渗透介质是允许流体通过的材料，它们在我们的自然和建筑环境中无处不在。流体在可渗透物质中的流动及其运输反应物的方式决定了我们自身生理的重要方面，许多生态系统的功能，自然资源的产生和提取，以及许多工业过程。因此，这个领域非常广泛，跨学科程度很高，工程师、物理学家、化学家、地球科学家、水文学家和生物学家都参与其中。可渗透介质中的流动和传输领域旨在提高我们对这些复杂系统的基本理解，并将其应用于广泛的社会问题。拟议工作的目标是赞助一个会议，作为戈登研究会议的一部分，讨论可渗透介质中的流动和运输。会议将于2020年6月19日至24日在瑞士的Les diableet举行。相当数量的参与者将是美国研究人员，会议参与者的2/3是早期研究人员（研究生，博士后助理和早期教授）。戈登研究会议是为期一周的沉浸式体验，其中展示了前沿的，未发表的科学，有很长的问答时间，海报会议，用餐时的科学讨论，以及会议之间的社交活动。这次特别会议还将在主要会议前两天举行戈登研究研讨会，仅供研究生和博士后助理展示他们的工作。总而言之，会议旨在由该领域的国际领导人讨论可渗透介质中流动和运输领域的重要思想和概念，新一代科学家也将积极参与。多孔介质中的流动和输运跨学科领域的重点是发展对广泛的天然和工程渗透性介质以及其中复杂的多相流，反应输运和变形过程的基本理解。该领域对地下能量恢复和储存、水文学、土壤科学至关重要，是美国国家科学基金会几个项目研究活动的核心焦点。计划的课程包括混合动力学、多相流、二氧化碳封存、微尺度流体动力学、创新传感器、生化过程、流体力学以及冰中的流动和运输。会议将集中讨论可渗透介质中流动和运输的基本挑战。本提案旨在支持在可渗透介质中的流动和运输戈登研究会议（GRC）中注册35名参与者。GRC的形式和结构旨在让科学家沉浸在可渗透介质中的流动和运输的新兴概念中-重点是突破性的结果和未发表的数据-通过长时间的问答时间，用餐时的互动讨论，重要的海报会议和会议之间的社交活动。这次特别会议还将在主要会议前两天举行戈登研究研讨会，仅供研究生和博士后助理介绍他们的工作。对早期调查人员和代表性不足群体的重视将大大增强本次会议的广泛影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Permeable media are materials that allow fluids to pass through them and they are everywhere in our natural and built environment. The flow of fluids through permeable materials and how they transport reactants determines vital aspect of our own physiology, the functioning of many ecosystems, the generation and extraction of natural resources, and many industrial processes. As such the field is very broad and highly interdisciplinary with participation from a variety of engineers, physicists, chemists, geoscientists, hydrologists and biologists. The field of Flow and Transport in Permeable Media aims to improve our fundamental understanding of these complex systems and apply it to broad range of societal problems. The goal of the proposed work is to sponsor a meeting as part of the Gordon Research Conferences on Flow and Transport in Permeable Media. The meeting will be held in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, June 19-24, 2020. A significant number of the participants will be U.S. researchers, and 2/3 of the meeting participants are early stage investigators (graduate students, postdoctoral associates, and early stage professors). Gordon Research Conferences are week-long immersive experiences in which cutting edge, unpublished science is presented, with long question and answer periods, poster session, discussion of science over meals, and social engagement between sessions. This particular meeting will also have a Gordon Research Seminar, two days before the main meeting, for solely graduate students and postdoctoral associates to present their work. In all, the meeting is designed to address the important ideas and concepts in the field of Flow and Transport in Permeable Media by international leaders in the field, with significant participation a new generation of scientists. The interdisciplinary field of Flow and Transport in Porous Media focuses on developing a fundamental understanding of wide range of natural and engineered permeable media and the complex multi-phase flow, reactive transport, and deformation processes within them. The field is crucial to subsurface energy recovery and storage, hydrology, soil science, and represents a core focus of research activity of several programs at the National Science Foundation. Planned sessions include Mixing dynamics, Multi-phase flows, CO2 sequestration, Micro-scale fluid dynamics, Innovative sensors, Biochemical processes, Hydromechanics, and Flow and transport in ice. The meeting will focus on the fundamental challenges in Flow and Transport in Permeable Media. This proposal is to support the registration of 35 participants in the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Flow and Transport in Permeable Media. The format and structure of the GRC is designed for immersion of scientists into new and emerging concepts in Flow and Transport in Permeable Media – with an emphasis on breaking results and unpublished data - though long question and answer periods, interactive discussion over meals, significant poster sessions and social activities between sessions. This particular meeting will also have a Gordon Research Seminar, two days before the main meeting, for solely graduate students and post-doctoral associates to present their work. The emphasis on early stage investigators and underrepresented groups will significantly enhance the broader impact of this meeting.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.