Travel Support for 5th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC), 2020

该项目支持40名美国学生和早期职业工程师/教师参加由美国热与流体工程师协会（ASTFE）组织的第五届热与流体工程会议（TFEC）。此外，这笔资金将协助10名应邀发言和小组成员参加会议，否则他们将不太可能出席会议。热与流体工程会议（TFEC）是自2015年以来的年度会议，已发展成为展示和讨论热与流体工程研究进展的领先平台。2020年，该会议将于2020年4月5日至8日在洛杉矶新奥尔良举行。一年一度的TFEC会议需要一个传播和讨论传热和流体力学领域研究成果的平台。目前正在为会议组织若干次会议，讨论热输送和流体输送的广泛问题。拟议的NSF支持将为来自全国各地的许多学生和早期职业工程师/教师提供重要的智力利益和专业发展机会。邀请发言者和小组成员的参与将加强和扩大会议的技术内容，从而使所有与会者受益。预计这项旅行资助将集中在与传热和流体工程相关的多个领域的研究合作。会议提供的面对面平台预计将导致有趣和富有成果的技术对话。预计这将导致解决热与流体工程的基础和应用问题的新颖，协作的方法。热工和流体工程对工业和生活的影响非常广泛。会议推动的这一领域的进步可能有助于改进和优化有益于整个社会的大量应用。将在TFEC上讨论的一些应用实例包括风力涡轮机、燃料电池、工业过程、生物医药等。TFEC的论文全文和扩展摘要由Begell House以会议论文集的形式出版。这组文件已汇编并在贝格尔之家网站上提供。这将导致在会议上提出的研究成果得到广泛传播。鉴于会议在新奥尔良举行，将组织主题演讲和其他活动，向听众介绍与热/流体工程相关的当地问题，例如河流、洪水和飓风引起的海洋、河口、运河、湖泊和水道之间的波浪相互作用的水管理。此外，将向热流体科学和工程界介绍新奥尔良地区各种本地企业在生物科学/工程方面的成功故事。会议组织者将努力确保少数民族和妇女在旅行补助金受益人中有很大的代表性，从而确保少数民族和妇女特别从会议中受益。将作出具体努力，在妇女和传统上代表人数不足的群体中宣传旅行补助金机会，并增加她们对会议的参与。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project supports partial travel for 40 U.S. students and early career engineers/faculty to the 5th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC) organized by the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE). In addition, the funding will facilitate participation of 10 invited speakers and panelists who would otherwise be unlikely to attend the conference. The Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC) is an annual conference since 2015 that has grown to become a leading platform for presentation and discussion of research advances in thermal and fluids engineering. In 2020, the conference will take place April 5-8, 2020 in New Orleans, LA. The annual TFEC conference addresses the need for a platform for dissemination and discussion of research results in the fields of heat transfer and fluid mechanics. A number of sessions encompassing the breadth of thermal and fluid transport are currently being organized for the conference. The proposed NSF support will enable a significant intellectual benefit and professional development opportunity for a number of students and early career engineers/faculty from around the country. The participation of invited speakers and panelists enabled by the support will enhance and broaden the technical content of the conference, thereby benefiting all attendees. It is expected that this travel grant will focus research collaborations in multiple areas related to heat transfer and fluids engineering. The in-person platform offered by the conference is expected to lead to interesting and fruitful technical conversations. It is expected that this will lead to novel, collaborative approaches for addressing fundamental and applied problems in thermal and fluids engineering. Thermal and fluids engineering effects a very broad spectrum of the industry and life in general. Advances in this field enabled by the conference may help improve and optimize a large number of applications that benefit the entire society in general. Some examples of applications to be discussed at TFEC include wind turbines, fuel cells, industrial processes, biomedicine, etc. Full papers and extended abstracts for TFEC are published by Begell House in the form of a conference proceeding. This set of papers are compiled and made available on the Begell House website. This will result in broad dissemination of research results presented at the conference. Given that the conference is being held in New Orleans, keynote presentations and other activities will be organized to introduce the audience to local issues of relevance to thermal/fluids engineering, such as water management of river, flood, and hurricane-induced wave interactions between ocean, bayous, canals, lakes, and waterways. Furthermore, the thermal-fluid science and engineering community will be introduced to the success stories of various local entrepreneurial efforts in bio-science/engineering in New Orleans area. By striving to ensure significant representation of minorities and women among the travel grant beneficiaries, the conference organizers will ensure that minorities and women specifically benefit from the conference. Specific efforts will be made to publicize the travel grant opportunity among women and persons from traditionally under-represented groups and increase their participation in the conference.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.