Nanofluids: Fundamentals and Applications Conference

提案编号：CBET-0710088首席研究员：Keblinsky， Pawel隶属：工程会议国际提案标题：纳米流体：基础和应用会议本提案要求支持组织一个名为纳米流体：基础和应用的ECI会议。会议预计将有来自工业界、政府和学术界的国际知名专家和决策者参加，讨论与纳米流体有关的问题。该课题与PMP（微粒和多相过程）和TTP（热传输过程）之间的项目兴趣重叠，因此建议联合资助。本次ECI会议的主题是纳米流体（纳米级颗粒和纤维的胶体悬浮液）。本次会议的目的是首次将来自世界各地不同学科（化学、物理、材料科学与工程、化学工程、机械工程、核工程等）的科学家和工程师聚集在一起，并致力于纳米流体和相关领域的研究。在非常低的颗粒体积分数下，商业流体（水、油）的热导率有可能提高数十个百分点，这一发现令人兴奋，在过去几年中，有关纳米流体的出版物呈指数级增长。具有这种改进的热传输特性的流体可以对涉及管理非常高的热通量的应用产生重大影响，这被认为是高性能电子设备未来发展的关键。然而，在纳米流体的几乎所有方面都有许多相互矛盾的报告。这次重点突出的国际会议是传播最新发现、辩论争议和讨论合作的理想论坛。会议将涵盖纳米流体的各个方面，将持续四天。前三天将包括指导，主题演讲和邀请演讲，随后是与会议主题相关的当前研究主题的简短报告。第四天将是一个工业论坛，包括主题演讲和特邀演讲，以及与应用和工业前景有关的简短演讲。晚上还会有海报活动。更广泛的影响纳米流体会议将允许纳米流体各个领域的研究人员传播他们的最新发现，辩论争议，讨论合作，定义纳米流体研究的前沿，提高社区的形象，并吸引工业参与，以便该技术可以达到应用水平。参与者将提交手稿在同行评审的期刊上发表。NSF要求的资金支持主要是为了支持美国的年轻研究人员（研究生、博士后研究人员）参加会议，从而使他们能够参加这个激动人心的会议。

Proposal Number: CBET-0710088 Principal Investigator: Keblinsky, Pawel Affiliation: Engineering Conferences International Proposal Title: Nanofluids: Fundamentals and Applications ConferenceThis proposal requests support for the organization of an ECI conference titled Nanofluids: Fundamentals and Applications. The conference is expected to be attended by internationally known experts and decision makers from industry, government, and academia to discuss issues related to nanofluids. This topic overlaps the program interests between PMP (particulate and Multiphase Processes) and TTP (Thermal Transport Processes) and thus is recommended for joint funding.Intellectual MeritThis ECI conference is on the timely topic of Nanofluids (colloid suspension of nanoscale particles and fibers). The aim of this conference is to bring together, for the first time, scientists and engineers from around the world, who have diverse disciplines (chemistry, physics, materials science & engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, and others) and are working on nanofluids and related areas. The potential for increasing thermal conductivity of commercial fluids (water, oil) by tens of percent at very low particle volume fraction led to excitement and an exponential increase of publications on nanofluids over the past few years. Fluids with such improved thermal transport properties can have a major impact on applications involving management of very high heat fluxes, which are recognized as critical in future development of high-performance electronic devices. There are numerous contradictory reports, however, in nearly all aspects of nanofluids. This focused international conference is an ideal forum to disseminate recent findings, debate controversies and discuss collaborations. The conference will cover all aspects of nanofluids and will last four days. The first three days will consist of tutorial, keynote, and invited talks, followed by shorter presentations on current research topics germane to the session topic. The fourth day will be an industrial forum with keynote and invited talks as well as shorter presentations relating to applications and industrial perspectives. There will also be an evening poster session.Broader ImpactThe nanofluids conference will allow the researchers of various areas of nanofluids to disseminate their most recent findings, debate controversies, discuss collaborations, define the frontier of nanofluids research, raise the profile of the communities, and attract industrial involvement so that the technology can be taken up to the application level. Participants will submit manuscripts for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.The financial support requested from the NSF is primarily targeted to support participation in the conference of young, US-based researchers (graduate students, postdoctoral researchers), thus enabling them to participate in this exciting meeting.