Support of an NSF-IFPRI Collaborative Summary Meeting, June 29-July 1, 2011, at the Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, NC

1138571 PI：Behringer本提案寻求为总结和审查会议提供资金，该会议将综合国家科学基金会-IFPRI合作实验室项目的成果，以确定颗粒材料的建模特征。会议将于2011年6月29日至7月1日在北卡罗来纳州教堂山的Carolina Inn举行，届时将有模型师、实验者、IFPRI成员和其他人参加。会议之后将举行，并成为IFPRI年度会议的一部分。这次会议的主要特点将是将在CUNY和杜克大学获得的物理数据与一些小组进行的模拟进行正面比较，特别是通过向国际精细粒子研究所(IFPRI)提出建议，由NSF-CBET资助的小组进行模拟。通过将这次会议与IFPRI年度大会结合起来，我们希望在学术和工业粉末用户社区内实现NSF-IFPRI合作成果的显著传播。我们还将寻求一系列年轻科学家和工程师的参与。智力价值就粉末和颗粒材料而言，很少可能在仔细的实验室研究和数值模拟之间进行详细的定量比较。在NSF-CBET最近的资助下，正是通过IFPRI的努力协调了这样一项研究。两套详细的物理测量被提供给了一些美国建模人员。在这里请求支持的会议，将把这些美国建模人员聚集在一起，讨论他们的模拟结果，并就模型的可靠性得出结论。预计非国家科学基金资助的与会者也将出席这次会议。这些来自行业和美国以外的参与者将加强建模和会议的努力，尽管重申，没有NSF资金提供给他们。布罗德影响这次会议的结果将被用来制作一份关于不同模型成功的广泛的公开报告。这将对颗粒材料的商业用户具有很大的价值。

1138571 PI: BehringerThis proposal seeks funding for a summary and review meeting that will consolidate results from the NSF-IFPRI Collaboratory project to characterize the modeling of granular materials. The meeting is to be held on June 29 to July 1, 2011 at The Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, NC and will bring together modelers, experimenters, IFPRI members and others. The meeting will follow and be a part of the IFPRI annual meeting. The key feature of this meeting will be a head-on comparison of physical data acquired at CUNY and at Duke University with simulations carried out by a number of groups, and in particular, by groups funded through NSF-CBET via a proposal to IFPRI (International Fine Particle Research Institute). By conjoining this meeting with the IFPRI AGM, we expect to achieve significant dissemination of results from the NSF-IFPRI collaboratory within the community of academic and industrial powder users. We will also seek the participation of a range of young scientists and engineers.Intellectual MeritIn the case of powders and granular materials, it is only rarely possible to make a detailed quantitative comparison between careful laboratory studies and numerical simulations. Under recent NSF-CBET funding, there has been just such a study that has been orchestrated through the efforts of IFPRI. Two detailed sets of physical measurements were provided to a number of US modelers. The meeting, for which support is requested here, will bring these US modelers together to discuss the results of their simulations and to draw conclusions about the reliability of models. It is also anticipated that non-NSF-funded participants will attend this meeting. These latter participants, coming from industry and from outside the US will enhance the modeling and meeting efforts, although, to reiterate, no NSF funds have been or will be provided for them.Broader ImpactThe results of this meeting will be used to produce a extensive public report of the success of different models. This will be of great value to commercial users of granular materials.