Conference: Fluidization XVII Conference Support

这笔资金将支持早期研究人员(学生、博士后和初级教师)参加流态化第17次会议(2023年5月21日至25日，苏格兰爱丁堡)。出席此次会议将确保美国在新型流态化技术领域的流态化基础研究和新兴应用领域继续保持竞争力。在过去的几十年里，通过仔细的实验、模拟和理论的结合，在对流态化系统的基本理解方面取得了显著的进展。尽管如此，对流态化系统的理解和准确预测远远比不上单相系统，在单相系统中，计算流体动力学(CFD)求解器等软件为设计和放大提供了可靠的工具。这项拟议工作的目标包括：(1)聚集工业界、学术界和国家实验室的成员，展示不同的观点和方法，并鼓励潜在的合作；(2)鼓励代表该领域未来的研究生研究人员和博士后积极参与；(3)聚集科学家和工程师，提供一个邀请和包容的氛围，公开讨论他们的学科和方法，从而激发新的合作和新的研究思路；(4)超越与新研究有关的技术内容，突出与教育、专业发展、多样性和包容性有关的内容；以及(5)特别面向科技、经济、技术和经济各级代表性不足的群体--会议组织委员会、特邀演讲者和与会者。NSF的支持将提供给新兴科学家(学生、博士后和初级教师)和代表不足的群体，以确保观众的多样性。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The funding will support early-stage researchers (students, post docs and junior faculty) to attend the Fluidization XVII conference (May 21-25, 2023, Edinburgh, Scotland). Attendance at the conference will ensure continued U.S. competitiveness in the fundamental research and emerging applications of fluidization for novel fluidization technologies field. Over the past few decades, notable advances in the fundamental understanding of fluidized systems have been possible via a combination of careful experiments, simulations, and theory. Nonetheless, the understanding and accurate prediction of fluidized system is nowhere near its single-phase counterparts, in which software like computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers provide a reliable tool for design and scale-up. The objectives of this proposed effort include: (i) bringing together members of industry, academia and national laboratories to showcase different perspectives and approaches, as well as to encourage potential collaborations; (ii) encouraging active participation by graduate researchers and post docs who represent the future of the field; (iii) bringing scientists and engineers together to provide an inviting and inclusive atmosphere to openly discuss their disciplines and approaches, thereby motivating new collaborations and new lines of inquiry;, (iv) going beyond the technical content associated with new research, and bringing to the foreground content related to education, professional development, and diversity and inclusion; and (v) particular outreach to underrepresented groups in STEM at all levels – conference organizing committees, invited speakers, and participants. The NSF support will be provided to emerging scientists (students, postdocs, and junior faculty) and underrepresented groups to ensure a diverse audience.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.