"Computational Modeling of Permeable Porous Materials for Application in Energy Capture, Recovery and Exchange"

提出的研究计划涉及使用计算流体动力学（CFD）开发和应用渗透多孔材料模型。多孔材料几乎存在于我们周围的一切事物中，从骨骼和组织，到衣服和食物，到土壤和矿物质，以及各种各样的材料，无论是自然产生的还是人造的。因此，我们对水和空气过滤、能量和水分交换等过程的理解，以及我们利用多孔材料的独特性能来开发燃料电池、热管和高效能量捕获/回收装置等设备的能力，都依赖于我们对这些多孔材料在不同条件和不同环境下如何发挥作用的理解。CFD是一项不断发展的新兴技术，在工业、环境和生理领域得到了广泛的应用。

The proposed research program concerns the development and application of models for permeable porous materials using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Porous materials exist in almost everything around us, from bone and tissue, to clothing and foods, to soils and minerals, and materials of all kinds, whether naturally occurring or manufactured. As such, our understanding of processes like water and air filtration, energy and moisture exchange, and our ability to utilize the unique properties of porous materials to develop devices like fuel cells, heat pipes and highly-efficient energy capture/recovery devices relies on our understanding of how these porous materials function under different conditions and in different environments. CFD is a continually emerging and growing technology that has seen widespread application in industrial, environmental and physiological domains.