GRK 1114: Optical Techniques for Measurement of Interfacial Transport Phenomena

热、质量和动量的界面传递现象在自然界和技术应用中支配着大量的过程，总体上具有巨大的经济重要性。这是一个跨学科的研究课题，涉及几个不同的基本物理过程，各种各样的实验技术和几乎无限的应用领域。尽管这些现象很重要，但它们的实验研究和建模并不是本科课程的典型主题，也不属于任何研究学科。此外，在比以前使用的时间和长度尺度小得多的时间和长度尺度上理解和模拟这些现象是明显需要的。特别是这些对分辨率的要求表明，光学测量技术具有非侵入性，将在未来的研究中发挥重要作用。从这些观察中得出的结论是，最好通过在测量技术的开发人员和面向应用的研究小组之间，最好在研究生一级，引入和确保强有力的合作，来保证这一领域的进展。因此，这些主题适合专门的研究培训小组。

Interfacial transport phenomena of heat, mass and momentum govern a large number of processes in both nature and technical applications, overall having a vast economic importance. This is a strongly interdisciplinary research topic, involving several different fundamental physical processes, a wide variety of experimental techniques and virtually an infinite number of application areas. Despite the importance of such phenomena, their experimental study and modelling is not typically a topic in undergraduate programmes, nor does this topic clearly belong to any research discipline. Furthermore, there is a distinct need for understanding and modelling these phenomena on time and length scales much smaller than those previously used. Especially these demands on resolution indicate the important role which optical measurement techniques, being non-intrusive, will play in future research efforts in this area. The conclusion drawn from these observations is that progress in this area is best assured by introducing and insuring strong cooperation between developers of measurement techniques and application-orientated research groups, preferably at the post-graduate level. Hence, these topics lend themselves to a dedicated Research Training Group.