Travel Grant for International Union for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) Symposium

对IUTAM牛顿流体和粘弹性流体中分散系统相互作用研讨会的旅行支持这笔赠款将促进美国科学家参加2006年3月26-30日在墨西哥瓜纳华托举行的国际理论和应用力学联盟(IUTAM)关于“牛顿流体和粘弹性流体中离散系统相互作用”的研讨会。研讨会的主要目的是调查分散系统重点领域的技术水平，并为日益增长的墨西哥流体力学社区和国际研究人员之间的重大交流提供机会。研讨会将汇集流变学、复杂流体和有限浓度效应领域的领先专家。研讨会的总主题是围绕分散相系统的基本力学建立的，包括液滴、气泡和颗粒。这样的系统在各种技术中都很重要，从超大规模的加工，如用于废物处理的原油输送和乳化技术，到相对较新的MEMS和微流体领域，这些领域在尖端高科技中很重要，如生物材料的加工，用于高保真信息存储应用的涂层，以及具有规定和期望的特性的新型复杂流体的工程。这次研讨会具有很强的国际代表性。美国国家科学基金会的资金将以部分旅行支持的形式用于促进来自美国的研究人员参加研讨会。初级研究人员将拥有最高的优先级。研究结果将以《流体物理学》特刊的形式广泛传播。本期将包括一份关于整个会议的权威报告和会议精选论文。

Travel Support for IUTAM Symposium on Interactions for Dispersed Systems in Newtonian and Viscoelastic FlowsThis grant will facilitate the participation of US scientists in the International Union for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) Symposium on "Interactions for Dispersed Systems in Newtonian and Viscoelastic Fluids" to be held in Guanajuato, Mexico March 26-30, 2006. The main aims of the Symposium are to survey the state of the art in focused areas of dispersed systems and to provide an opportunity for significant interchange between the growing Mexican fluid mechanics community and international researchers. The Symposium will bring together leading experts in the areas of rheology, complex fluids, and finite concentration effects. The general theme of the Symposium is built around the basic mechanics of dispersed phases systems, including drops, bubbles and particles. Such systems are of importance in a variety of technologies, ranging from very large scale processing, such as crude oil conveying and emulsion technology for waste disposal, to the relatively new areas of MEMS and microfluidics important in sophisticated high-technologies such as processing of biological materials, coatings for high-fidelity information storage applications, and the engineering of new, complex fluids with prescribed and desirable properties. The symposium has strong international representation. NSF funds will be used to facilitate participation in the Symposium by researchers from the US in the form of partial travel support. Junior researchers will have the highest priority. The results will be broadly disseminated in the form of a special issue of the Physics of Fluids. This issue will contain both an authoritative report on the entire meeting and selected papers from the meeting.