The UK Turbulence Consortium

了解、预测和控制湍流对于许多行业至关重要，也是一个限制因素：海军、航空、汽车、发电、加工、制药、气象和环境。如果不更好地了解湍流，我们今天面临的许多环境和能源相关问题就不可能得到解决。英国湍流联盟（UKTC）是一个由英国研究人员组成的组织，致力于使用高性能计算系统进行高质量、世界领先的湍流模拟和科学研究。UKTC于1995年获得资助，已经经历了六次非常成功的迭代，从最初的5个成员到目前的近30个英国机构的70个成员，有了显着的增长，以包容性的方式发展和服务于社区。我们的观点是，湍流研究取得进展的关键是维持和刺激研究人员之间的互动。必须以有效和建设性的方式汇集各种各样的观点、意见、战略和方法。英国湍流联盟的本质是提供所需的临界质量活动的核心，考虑到湍流带来的巨大挑战。在过去的25年里，UKTC（i）证明了其将国家高端计算（HEC）资源转化为国际领先研究的能力，（ii）建立了国际竞争力，（iii）帮助其成员利用并确保政府资助机构和行业的数百万磅赠款，（iv）允许发现新的流体流动现象，这导致了改进湍流的有益效果和减少湍流的负面影响的新方法，以及（v）促进了重新定义工业标准的更复杂的湍流模型的设计。

Understanding, predicting and controlling turbulent flows is of central importance and a limiting factor to a vast range of industries: naval, aeronautical, automotive, power generation, process, pharmaceutical, meteorological and environmental. Many of the environmental and energy-related issues we face today cannot possibly be tackled without a better understanding of turbulent flows. The UK Turbulence Consortium (UKTC) is a group of UK researchers committed to undertaking high quality, world leading turbulence simulation and scientific research using high performance computing systems. Funded in 1995, the UKTC has been through six highly successful iterations, with significant growth, from 5 original members to 70 members from nearly 30 UK institutions for the present bid, with an inclusive approach to developing and serving the community. Our view is that the key to advances in turbulence is by sustaining and stimulating interaction among researchers. It is essential that a diverse range of viewpoints, opinions, strategies and methods are brought together in an efficient and constructive manner. The essence of the UK Turbulence Consortium is to provide the central core of a needed critical mass activity considering the big challenges posed by turbulence. In the last 25 years, the UKTC has (i) demonstrated its ability to convert access to national High-End Computing (HEC) resources into internationally leading research, (ii) established its international competitiveness, (iii) helped its members to leverage and secure multi-million pound grants from governmental funding bodies and industries, (iv) allowed the discovery of new fluid flow phenomena which have led to new ways of improving beneficial effects and reducing negative effects of turbulent flows and (v) facilitated the design of more sophisticated turbulence models redefining industry standards.