Presidential Young Investigators Award: Nonlinear Dynamics of Reaction and Transport Processes

这笔赠款是为了在国家科学基金会的总统青年研究员奖计划下为Yannis G.Kevin博士提供研究支持。凯夫瑞基迪斯博士的研究主要围绕物理化学和工程过程的动态行为进行研究。他的工作重点是在真实的建模水平上开发、实现和利用计算工具。具体地说，他的工作在两个方面：(1)集总反应系统的非线性动态行为和控制--在这一领域，他的工作旨在更好地从根本上理解反应系统中非稳态行为的性质，制定系统检测转变的方法，并对充分发展的依赖时间的动力学进行表征和分析。(2)运输过程中的不稳定性、相变、模式和复杂动力学--在这一领域，他致力于系统地研究一类由偏微分方程组描述的反应/流动问题的低维(非完全湍流)动力学行为。他的长期目标是使用计算机对物理和化学过程进行基本建模，分析，并最终在此模型的基础上进行设计。

This grant is to provide research support for Dr. Yannis G. Kevrekidis under the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Awards program. Dr. Kevrekidis' research is centered around the study of the dynamic behavior of physicochemical and engineering processes. His work is focused on the development, implementation and exploitation of computational tools at a realistic modeling level. Specifically, his work is in two areas: (1) Nonlinear dynamic behavior and control of lumped reacting systems--In this area his work is aimed at obtaining a better fundamental understanding of the nature of non-steady-state behavior in reacting systems, the development of methods for the systematic detection of transitions, and the characterization and analysis of fully developed time-dependent dynamics. (2) Instabilities, transitions, patterns and complex dynamics in transport processes--In this area he is concentrating on the systematic study of low dimensional (not fully turbulent) dynamic behavior in a class of reaction/flow problems described by partial differential equations. His long term goal is to use the computer to do fundamental modeling of physical and chemical processes, analyze, and ultimately design them based on this modeling.