A Workshop on the Development of Fluid Mechanics Community Software and Data Resources

2007年7月19-20日举行的由美国国家科学基金会赞助的研讨会“网络流体动力学：研究和教育的新前沿”的成果之一是建议流体力学界朝着整合计算流体动力学（CFD）工具以及参考数值解和实验数据库的方向发展（http://www.nsfcyberfluids）。gatech.edu/)。许多社区都从这样的软件整合中受益。其中包括生物分子动力学社区与NAMD （http://www/ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd）和GROMACS (http://www.gromacs.org)，天气模拟社区与WRF (3www.wrf-model.org)，和地球动力学社区与CIG （http://www.geodynamics.org/）。这种整合的好处包括：通过为此类创新提供软件平台，降低建模和数值方法创新的障碍；通过为此类研究提供充分表征和完善的工具，提高基于CFD的研究的生产率；通过访问大量可靠的实验和计算数据，使流体动力学研究成为可能；以及改进验证和验证标准，以提高CFD解决方案的可靠性。为了进一步探索开发社区软件和数据资源的可能性和潜在过程，计划举办一个后续讲习班，特别侧重于开发和巩固这种社区资源。本次研讨会的目标有三个方面：1。探讨与流体动力学社区软件和数据资源开发相关的可能价值和实际问题。2. 就是否以及如何继续开发这类资源提出一套建议。3. 确定一组流体动力学研究人员，他们将参与任何推荐的开发过程。这笔奖金主要用于支付参与者的支助费用，并将用于吸引各种讲习班的参与。这个研讨会的资助是由ENG， OCI和CISE董事会共同资助的。

0950102MoserOne outcome of the NSF-sponsored workshop 'NSF Workshop on Cyber-Fluid Dynamics: New Frontiers in Research and Education' held July 19-20, 2007 was a recommendation that the fluid mechanics community move toward consolidating computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools as well as libraries of reference numerical solutions and experimental data (http://www.nsfcyberfluids. gatech.edu/). A number of communities have benefited from such a software consolidation. These include the biological molecular dynamics community with NAMD (http://www/ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd) and GROMACS (http://www.gromacs.org), the weather modeling community with WRF (3www.wrf-model.org), and the geodynamics community with CIG (http://www.geodynamics.org/). Among the benefits of such a consolidation would be: lowering barriers to innovation in modeling and numerical methods by providing a software platform for such innovation, increasing productivity of CFD-based research by providing well characterized and well established tools for such research, enabling fluid dynamics research through access to a wide array of reliable experimental and computational data, and improving standards for verification and validation to improve reliability of CFD solutions. To further pursue the possibility and potential processes for developing community software and data resources, a follow-up workshop specifically focused on the development and consolidation of such community resources is planned. The objectives of this workshop are three fold: 1. To explore the likely value and practical issues associated with development of fluid dynamics community software and data resources. 2. To develop a set of recommendations regarding whether and how to move forward to develop such resources. 3. To identify a group of fluid dynamics researchers who will participate in whatever development process is recommended. This award is primarily for participant support costs and will be used to attract a diverse workshop particiation.This workhop grant is cofunded by the ENG, OCI, and CISE Directorates.