The UK Turbulence Consortium

了解、预测和控制湍流对许多行业至关重要，也是一个限制因素，这些行业包括：海军、航空、汽车、发电、工艺、制药、气象和环境。如果不能更好地了解湍流，就不可能解决我们今天面临的许多与环境和能源有关的问题。英国湍流联盟(UKTC)是一组英国研究人员，致力于使用高性能计算系统进行高质量、世界领先的湍流模拟和科学研究。UKTC成立于1995年，已经经历了六次非常成功的迭代，并有了显著的增长，从最初的5名成员到本次申办的来自近30家英国机构的70名成员，以包容的方式发展和服务社区。我们的观点是，湍流进展的关键是维持和刺激研究人员之间的互动。必须以有效和建设性的方式将各种不同的观点、意见、战略和方法结合在一起。考虑到湍流带来的巨大挑战，英国湍流联盟的本质是提供所需临界质量活动的中心核心。在过去的25年里，UKTC已经(I)展示了它有能力将国家高端计算(HEC)资源的获取转化为国际领先的研究，(Ii)建立了它的国际竞争力，(Iii)帮助其成员利用并获得了政府资助机构和行业的数百万英镑赠款，(Iv)使人们能够发现新的流体流动现象，这些现象导致了改进湍流的有益影响和减少负面影响的新方法，以及(V)促进了重新定义行业标准的更复杂的湍流模型的设计。

Understanding, predicting and controlling turbulent flows is of central importance and a limiting factor to a vast range of industries: naval, aeronautical, automotive, power generation, process, pharmaceutical, meteorological and environmental. Many of the environmental and energy-related issues we face today cannot possibly be tackled without a better understanding of turbulent flows. The UK Turbulence Consortium (UKTC) is a group of UK researchers committed to undertaking high quality, world leading turbulence simulation and scientific research using high performance computing systems. Funded in 1995, the UKTC has been through six highly successful iterations, with significant growth, from 5 original members to 70 members from nearly 30 UK institutions for the present bid, with an inclusive approach to developing and serving the community. Our view is that the key to advances in turbulence is by sustaining and stimulating interaction among researchers. It is essential that a diverse range of viewpoints, opinions, strategies and methods are brought together in an efficient and constructive manner. The essence of the UK Turbulence Consortium is to provide the central core of a needed critical mass activity considering the big challenges posed by turbulence. In the last 25 years, the UKTC has (i) demonstrated its ability to convert access to national High-End Computing (HEC) resources into internationally leading research, (ii) established its international competitiveness, (iii) helped its members to leverage and secure multi-million pound grants from governmental funding bodies and industries, (iv) allowed the discovery of new fluid flow phenomena which have led to new ways of improving beneficial effects and reducing negative effects of turbulent flows and (v) facilitated the design of more sophisticated turbulence models redefining industry standards.