Fourth International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels

国家科学基金项目编号：CTS-0612617主要研究者： Kandlikar，Satish G. 罗切斯特理工学院提案标题：第四届纳米通道、微通道和微型通道国际会议国家科学基金会的这一奖项将提供部分资金，以支持2006年6月19日至21日在爱尔兰的利默里克举行的第四届纳米通道、微通道和微型通道国际会议。 这笔赠款将为10名正式代表和15名学生代表提供部分旅费津贴，以便利他们参加会议。 关于学术价值，会议是一个重要的国际论坛，为来自工程，科学和医学学科的广泛的横截面的研究人员谁是工作的基础和应用程序的流动和运输在小规模的内部流动。 一些当前的主题将在会议上展出的纳米粒子对运输过程的影响，在小尺度上的表面张力效应，多相流在小通道，新型医疗诊断和药物输送设备，以及能源设备中的微通道流动。 所有这些主题都与NSF的热传输和热处理计划（资助计划）中的核心优先领域有关。 会议将通过提供一个互动和传播最新研究的论坛，以及为不同群体的学生和学术研究人员的参与提供特殊机会，产生更广泛的影响。

ABSTRACTNational Science FoundationProposal Number: CTS-0612617Principal Investigator: Kandlikar, Satish G.Affiliation: Rochester Institute of TechnologyProposal Title: Fourth International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and MinichannelsThis award from The National Science Foundation will provide partial funding to support the Fourth International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, June 19-21, 2006 in Limerick, Ireland. The grant will provide partial travel stipends to 10 full delegates and 15 student delegates to facilitate their participation in the conference. With respect to intellectual merit, the conference is an important international forum for researchers from a broad cross-section of engineering, science, and medical disciplines who are working on fundamentals and applications of flow and transport in small-scale internal flows. Some of the current topics to be featured in the conference are effects of nanoparticles on transport processes, surface tension effects at small scales, multiphase flows in small channels, novel medical diagnostic and drug delivery devices, and microchannel flows in energy devices. All of these topics are related to core priority areas within the Thermal Transport and Thermal Processing Program of the NSF, the funding program. The conference will have many broader impacts by providing a forum for interaction and dissemination of recent research, as well as by providing special opportunities for the participation of a diverse group of students and academic researchers.