Collaborative Research: qHUB - Cyberinfrastructure for Community-Driven Research and Learning in Heat Transfer

NSF奖：CBET-0743728项目名称：qHUB：社区驱动的传热研究和学习的网络基础设施PI姓名：Timothy S. Fisher（普渡大学，PI）Costas Grigoropoulos（加州伯克利大学，Co-PI）Jennifer Lukes（宾夕法尼亚大学，Co-PI）Jayathi Murthy（普渡大学，Co-PI）Greg步行者（范德比尔特大学，Co-PI）PUBLIC ABSTRACTA新的基于Web的数据存储库为传热社区，qHUB（该？q？代表热传递）将计划和实施与此种子赠款。 该社区已经以跨学科和国际努力而闻名，包括通过与IEEE，AIChE，AIAA以及欧洲，印度和中国的合作伙伴协会和组织联合主办的会议和研讨会密切协调技术活动。拟议的活动扩大了这一成功的社区驱动的联合会的能力，利用成熟的网络基础设施，并将其扩大到社区手中的新资源。qHUB将提供从原子到连续尺度的传输现象模拟工具，并将在成功的nanoHUB模型之后进行设计。它还将包括一个热传输特性数据库和一个协调合作实验的论坛，包括样品交换和材料合成和热测量资源共享。此外，qHUB将为教育举措提供集中资源，包括共享教学资源、社区访问wiki资源以及传播具有全球影响力的在线视频/音频课程讲座和研讨会。这种基层的努力包括社区中经验丰富的成员和热情，有成就的早期职业研究人员，他们将维持qHUB几十年。它的方法是积极的，不仅寻求为新的工程虚拟组织执行社区规划过程，而且还部署实质性的原型内容，使社区能够进行评估和改进，并为欧洲和亚洲的国际参与制定具体计划。对于技术社区，qHUB将提供一个论坛，讨论和解决需要传热和其他学科专业知识的新的和重要的研究问题。所设想的资源还将降低使用更广泛社区（包括工业和政府实验室）开发的最先进和技术最复杂的计算工具的门槛。qHUB内容将为其他学科的技术非专家提供信息和学习资源，包括K-12级别的教育资源。最后，qHUB将通过更方便，高效和实质性的互动模式来重振传热社区，从而促进新的合作。

NSF Award: CBET-0743728Project Title: qHUB: Cyberinfrastructure for Community-Driven Research and Learning in Heat TransferPI Names: Timothy S. Fisher (Purdue University, PI)Costas Grigoropoulos (University of California Berkeley, Co-PI)Jennifer Lukes (University of Pennsylvania, Co-PI)Jayathi Murthy (Purdue University, Co-PI)Greg Walker (Vanderbilt University, Co-PI)PUBLIC ABSTRACTA new web-based data repository for the heat-transfer community, qHUB (the ?q? stands for heat transfer) will be planned and implemented with this seed grant. This community is already well known for interdisciplinary and international efforts involving close coordination of technical activities through jointly sponsored conferences and workshops with the IEEE, AIChE, AIAA, and partner societies and organizations in Europe, India and China. The proposed activities extend the capabilities of this successful community-driven federation by exploiting proven cyberinfrastructure and expanding it to place new resources in the hands of the community. qHUB will provide transport phenomena simulation tools from atomistic to continuum scales and will be designed after the successful nanoHUB model. It will also include a database for thermal transport properties and a forum to coordinate collaborative experiments including sample exchanges and the sharing of resources for material synthesis and thermal measurements. In addition, qHUB will provide a centralized resource for educational initiatives, including the sharing of pedagogical resources, a community-access wiki resource, and the dissemination of online video/audio course lectures and seminars with a global reach. This grass-roots effort includes highly experienced members of the community and enthusiastic, accomplished early-career researchers who will would sustain qHUB for decades. Its approach is aggressive in seeking not only to execute a community planning process for a new engineering virtual organization, but also to deploy substantive prototype content that enables assessment and refinement by the community, with specific plans for international engagement in Europe and Asia. For the technical community, qHUB will provide a forum to discuss and solve new and important research problems requiring expertise in heat transfer and other disciplines. The resources envisioned would also lower barriers for entry to using of the most advanced and technically sophisticated computational tools developed by the broader community, including industry and government laboratories. qHUB content would provide information and learning resources for technical nonexperts in other disciplines, including educational resources for the K-12 level. Lastly, qHUB will catalyze new collaborations within the heat transfer community by reinvigorating it with more convenient, efficient, and substantive modes of interaction.