CHT'08: Participation in an International Symposium

该奖项为将于2008年5月11日至16日在摩洛哥马拉喀什举行的第四届计算传热学进展国际研讨会提供部分支持。本次会议的目的是汇聚计算传热学领域的一批强大的国际研究人员，讨论热流体计算的最新进展，并帮助确定新出现的趋势。关于会议的学术价值，预计将有一个广泛的跨学科研究人员会议，代表机械工程、化学工程、数学、物理、大气和海洋科学以及计算机科学等学科。鉴于热过程的无处不在，以及实现新研究进展的计算模拟的必要性，将不同的计算研究人员聚集在一起提供的刺激仍然非常重要。会议的更广泛影响包括允许一些初级研究人员以及来自代表不足的群体的一些人参加会议并与他们的同行互动。这次会议已经吸引了一些共同赞助商，这表明了NSF直接支持所能提供的更广泛的影响。会议上提交的所有论文将在一个网站上提供，选定的论文将出现在一本新的计算热科学杂志的特刊上。

CBET-0800984, PepperThis award provides partial support for the 4th International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer, which will be held in Marrakech, Morocco, on May 11-16, 2008. The purpose of this meeting is to bring together a strong, international group of researchers in the field of computational heat transfer to discuss the current state-of-the-art in thermofluids computing, and to help identify emerging trends. With respect to the intellectual merit of the conference, a broadly interdisciplinary assembly of researchers is anticipated, representing disciplines such as mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, mathematics, physics, atmospheric and oceanographic sciences, and computer science. Given the ubiquity of thermal processes, and the necessity of computational simulation to achieve new research advances, the stimulus provided by bringing together a diverse group of computational researchers remains extremely important.The broader impacts of the conference include allowing a number of junior researchers, as well as some from underrepresented groups, to attend the meeting and to interact with their peers. The conference has already attracted a number of co-sponsors, which indicates a broader impact beyond what can be provided by direct NSF support. All papers presented at the meeting will be available on a website, and selected papers will appear in a special issue of a new journal on Computational Thermal Sciences.