Workshop on Research Directions in Simulation-Based Engineering and Science, held Spring 2009

基于仿真的工程和科学研究方向研讨会，2009 年春季举行

• 批准号: 0925098
• 负责人: Robert Shelton
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: World Technology Evaluation Center, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-15 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0925098&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Research; Directions; Simulation; Based

The research objective of this award is to identify and critically evaluate the most promising research areas and research themes in the field of simulation-based engineering and science. Ideas and data will be gathered in a workshop from some of the nation's leading researchers in the field. These will be supplemented by the results from a recently completed report from a predecessor study, which gathered similar data from 59 leading labs abroad. Deliverables include a conference proceedings report to be available as a bound volume at the meeting on April 22, an updated version posed on the Web when all presentations are finalized by the participants, a draft version of a final synthesis report of the workshop findings, and a bound volume of the final report when all editing has been completed. Both the proceedings and final report will be maintained on the Web for at least five years.The results of this research will enable researchers and research managers to focus their efforts on the areas: (1) that need the most work to overcome barriers to progress, and (2) that offer the greatest potential for progress. This methodology is emerging as an equal partner to the long established mathematical and experimental methodologies for scientific and engineering investigation. The advent of vastly more powerful computers at affordable costs, and recent quantum improvements in software algorithms allow researchers to use simulation and modeling techniques to investigate problems that were never tractable before. New simulation techniques allow the researcher to explore situations in materials, biomedical, energy, the environment, and many other domains that offer the promise of greatly improved predictions. Examples of application areas include global warming, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcano eruptions, terrorist attacks and their aftermath, nanotechnology safety, financial crises, and many others --almost anything can be modeled and simulated with useful results. Further, this emerging discipline offers means of attracting young people into science and engineering because of its wide application to important, but easily understood, situations, its attractive visualization outputs, and its accessibility to even beginning students.

该奖项的研究目标是确定并严格评估基于模拟的工程和科学领域最有前途的研究领域和研究主题。 研讨会将收集来自该领域的一些全国领先研究人员的想法和数据。 这些结果将得到前一项研究最近完成的报告的结果的补充，该研究从国外 59 个领先实验室收集了类似的数据。 可交付成果包括将在 4 月 22 日的会议上作为装订本提供的会议记录报告、与会者完成所有演示文稿后在网上发布的更新版本、研讨会结果的最终综合报告的草稿版本，以及完成所有编辑后的最终报告合订本。 会议记录和最终报告将在网络上保留至少五年。这项研究的结果将使研究人员和研究管理人员能够将精力集中在以下领域：(1) 需要付出最多努力来克服进展障碍的领域，(2) 提供最大的进步潜力。 这种方法正在成为长期建立的科学和工程研究数学和实验方法的平等伙伴。 以可承受的成本出现更强大的计算机，以及最近软件算法的量子改进，使研究人员能够使用模拟和建模技术来研究以前从未解决过的问题。 新的模拟技术使研究人员能够探索材料、生物医学、能源、环境和许多其他领域的情况，从而有望大大改进预测。 应用领域的示例包括全球变暖、地震、海啸、火山爆发、恐怖袭击及其后果、纳米技术安全、金融危机以及许多其他领域——几乎任何事物都可以建模和模拟，并产生有用的结果。 此外，这一新兴学科提供了吸引年轻人进入科学和工程领域的方法，因为它广泛应用于重要但易于理解的情况，其有吸引力的可视化输出，甚至对于初学者来说也很容易理解。