Travel Grant to attend Fluidos-2008 in Santa Fe, Argentina

该项目是Ramon Cerro博士参加2008年11月19日至21日在阿根廷圣达菲举行的国际旅行资助项目。本次会议是第十届流体物理学及其应用最新进展全国会议，由阿根廷各大学组织，科学和技术部长赞助。这项奖助金的项目负责人已被邀请发表一篇全体会议论文。建议的知识价值：PI应邀就“接触角度：静态和动态”做了一次全体演讲。这是一个由美国国家科学基金会资助的多相流体输运研究项目。鉴于最近在微通道和极低重力下的流动方面取得的进展，这一研究方向对会议特别感兴趣。界面效应对微通道内的输运有较大影响。更广泛的影响：该会议每两年举行一次，是阿根廷、智利和巴西流体力学专家的聚会。听众是化学、核和机械工程师以及物理学家和数学家。这是一个与南美顶尖科学家会面并与阿拉巴马大学亨茨维尔分校研究生研究项目开展合作的绝佳机会。PI在阿根廷境内的所有费用和旅行都由阿根廷组委会支付，但这笔赠款提供往返阿根廷的长途机票。与南美和拉丁美洲国家以及其他国家的国际合作和接触为美国国家科学基金项目资助的研究人员带来了许多有益的影响。

0836933CerroThis project is aninternational travel grant Dr. Ramon Cerro to participate in the Fluids-2008 to be held in Santa Fe, Argentina the week of November 19-21, 2008. This conference is the 10th National Meeting on Recent Advances in Physics of Fluids and its applications, organized by Argentinean universities and sponsored by the Secretary of Science and Technology. The PI of this grant has been invited to deliver a plenary conference paper.Intellectual Merit of Proposal: The PI was invited to give a plenary lecture on the "Contact Angles: Static and Dynamic". A topic that draws heavily from the research conducted by the PI and sponsored by NSF on multiphase fluids transport. This line of research is of particular interest for the conference on the light of recent advances on flows in micro channels and under very low gravity. The interfacial effects have a large effect on the transport in the micro-channels.Broader Impact: This conference takes place every two years and is a point of gathering for fluid mechanics experts from Argentina, Chile and Brazil. The audience are chemical, nuclear and mechanical engineers as well as physicists and mathematicians. This is an excellent opportunity to meet the leading scientists of South America and to develop collaboration with the University of Alabama Huntsville graduate research program.All expenses of the PI and travel within Argentina are paid by the organizing Argentinean Committee, but this grant provides the coach airfare to/from Argentina. International collaboration and contacts with South American and Latin American countries, as well as other countries, have resulted in many beneficial effects to USA researchers supported in this NSF program.