Workshop Series on Thermal Issues in Climate Change

气候变化是我们这个时代最重要的问题之一。气候变化的后果对地方和全球经济以及人类健康产生影响，并可能加剧现有的不平等。热能领域的研究人员为提供应对气候变化的工程解决方案做出了重大贡献，包括改进传热机制以提高效率，食品-能源-水的关系，以及可再生能源的先进材料和流动行为。该奖项旨在支持一系列关于气候变化中热问题的虚拟小型研讨会，这些研讨会汇集了来自热社区的研究人员，以促进跨学科合作并共同应对这一重大挑战。小型研讨会的成果包括一个路线图，说明热社区如何努力应对气候变化及其社会影响，以及短期和长期的实施项目。该系列将加强跨机构和跨领域合作的研究人员社区，并将提供专业发展机会，特别是为初级同事，重点是包括历史上的成员，这个关于气候变化中的热问题的虚拟系列的目标是通过每两周一次的讨论会促进合作，这些讨论会将多学科研究人员聚集在一起，寻找交叉领域为了晋升每场会议都将围绕一个与气候变化的影响或预防有关的主题，并进行四至六次不超过三分钟的快速会谈，然后进行简短的一般性讨论和分组讨论，以更深入地探讨潜在的合作和可能演变为未来融资机会的特定主题。对于每一次会议，都有一些基本问题支撑着研究界解决这些重点领域的能力。例如，热电储能是当前电网脱碳以及解决空间调节需求的关键技术，但可以加速其采用的先进材料的基本热物理相变机制仍然没有得到很好的理解，包括活性床中的共轭传热模式和精确操作所需的动态控制。除了在科学和工程的离散主题的进步，讨论系列还将有助于在不同机构和领域的研究人员之间的沟通，这将有助于彻底确定关键的研究和发展需要，以应对气候变化。该奖项反映了NSF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。

Climate change is one of the most important issues of our time. The consequences of a changing climate have implications on local and global economies and human health and can exacerbate existing inequalities. Researchers in the thermal community have contributed significantly to providing engineering solutions to climate change, including improved heat transfer mechanisms for higher efficiencies, the food-energy-water nexus, and advanced material and flow behavior for renewable energy. This award is to support a series of virtual mini-workshops on thermal issues in climate change that bring together researchers from the thermal community to nucleate and promote interdisciplinary collaborations and to collectively tackle this grand challenge. The outcome of the mini-workshops includes a roadmap for how the thermal community can work to address climate change and its societal impacts, with both short- and long-term items for implementation. The series will strengthen a community of researchers that collaborate across institutions and fields, and will provide professional development opportunities, particularly for junior colleagues, with a focus on including members of historically under-represented groups.The goal of this virtual series on thermal issues in climate change is to facilitate collaboration through biweekly discussion sessions that bring together multidisciplinary researchers to find intersectional areas for advancement. Each session will revolve a topic central to the impact or prevention of climate change, and feature four to six speed talks of no more than three minutes apiece, followed by a brief general discussion and breakout rooms to delve more deeply into both potential collaborations and specific topics of interest that might evolve into future funding opportunities. For each session, there are fundamental questions underpinning the ability of the research community to address these focus areas. For example, thermal-electrical energy storage is a crucial technology in decarbonizing the current grid, as well as addressing space conditioning needs, but the underlying thermophysical phase change mechanisms of the advanced materials that can accelerate its adoption are still not well understood, including the conjugate modes of heat transfer in an active bed and the dynamic controls needed for precise operation. Beyond the advancements in discrete topics in science and engineering, the discussion series will also aid in communication between researchers at different institutions and fields, which will contribute to the thorough identification of key research and development needs for addressing climate change. The published outcomes of the discussion series will further this goal beyond the bounds of the series itself as well.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.