Acquisition of a Simulation and Visualization Facility for Fluid Dynamics Research

这项核磁共振奖将支持在库兰特研究所购买计算流体动力学和可视化方面的研究、研究培训和教育设备。我们的目标是在我们新的应用数学实验室(AML)内创建一个最先进的模拟和可视化中心，该实验室致力于流体动力学模拟和可视化方面的教育和研究培训。这些设备将由研究所从事流体力学研究的各个领域的研究小组共享，并与这些研究小组目前和未来拥有的计算和可视化设施相结合。计划中的仪器包括计算机、大容量存储系统、投影设施、网络增强、第三方软件许可证和各种较小的项目。。将在该设施进行的研究和研究培训致力于了解生物物理、地球物理和能源研究以及基本流体动力学中出现的复杂流体流动--二维和三维--以及流体动力学计算和可视化方面的教育。所需仪器的一个主要受益者是目前正在沃伦·韦弗大厅一楼建造的新的应用数学实验室。反洗钱由两个部分组成，WetLab和VisLab。湿法实验室是流体力学的演示和研究实验室。VisLab(可视化与模拟实验室)是相关的计算设施。反洗钱设施旨在将研究与研究培训和教育相结合，并将计算、可视化和实验研究与研究培训和指导相结合。将使用拟议仪器的研究活动包括昆虫飞行模拟、复杂流体动力学的计算研究、心脏流体动力学、用于聚变科学和太阳物理的三维磁流体力学模型、地球物理流动，以及研究复杂几何形状的空气动力学流动。通过目前的提议，它将为我们的学生提供访问大型模拟平台以及现代可视化和动画硬件和软件的途径。这项研究工作将由数学科学部、MPS多学科活动办公室和MRI计划联合资助。

This MRI award will support the purchase of equipment for research, research training, and education in computational fluid dynamics and visualization, at the Courant Institute. The aim is to create a state-of-the-art simulation and visualization center within our new Applied Mathematics Laboratory (AML), which is dedicated to education and research training in fluid dynamical simulation and visualization. The equipment will be shared by research groups engaged in various areas of fluid dynamics research at the Institute, and integrated with the present and future computational and visualization facilities owned by these research groups. The planned instrumentation includes computers, a mass storage system, projection facilities, network enhancements, third-party software licenses, and miscellaneous smaller items. . The research and research training to be conducted in the facility is dedicated to understanding complicated fluid flows - 2- and 3-dimensional - arising in biophysics, geophysics, and energy research as well as basic fluid dynamics, and to education in fluid dynamical computation and visualization. A major beneficiary of the requested instrumentation is the new Applied Mathematics Laboratory now under construction on the ground floor of Warren Weaver Hall. The AML is comprised of two components, the Wetlab and the ViSLab. The Wetlab is a demonstration and research laboratory of fluid mechanics. The ViSLab (Visualization and Simulation Laboratory) is the associated computational facility. The AML facility is designed to integrate research with research training and education, and to synthesize computation, visualization, and experimental research with research training and instruction. Research activities that will use the proposed instrumentation include the simulation of insect flight, computational studies of the dynamics of complex fluids, the fluid dynamics of the heart, three-dimensional niagnetohydrodynamic modelling for fusion science and solar physics, geophysical flows, and study of aerodynamic flow in complicated geometry. Through the present proposal it will provide our students with access to large-scale simulation platforms and to modern visualization and animation hardware and software. This research effort will be funded jointly by the Division of Mathematical Science, the MPS Office of Multidisciplinary Activities, and the MRI Program.