Development of Physical and Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratories for Studies in Crust/Mantle Dynamics

该奖项提供了购买流体动力学实验室系统设备所需资金的64%，该系统将在罗德岛大学海洋学研究生院地质系安装、操作和维护。该机构承诺提供购买该设备所需的剩余资金。板块构造的发展，加上对海底地质过程和地幔的地球化学和地球物理学认识的进步，使人们认为固体地球是一个活跃循环的系统。安装在流体动力学实验室的设备将与理论相结合，用于测试地壳和地幔动态流动的各种模型。

This award provides 64% of the funds needed to acquire equipment for a fluid dynamics laboratory system that will be installed, operated and maintained in the Department of Geology at the Graduate School of Oceanography of Rhode Island University. The institution is committed to providing the remaining funds required for this equipment purchase. The development of plate tectonics, coupled with advances in understanding of seafloor geological processes and the geochemistry and geophysics of the underlying mantle, has led to the view that the solid earth is a system in active circulation. The equipment to be installed in the fluid dynamics lab will be used, in conjunction with theory, to test various models of crust and mantle dynamic flow.