| Description: |
thermalHUB.org is the web portal for a new project funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to define the elements of a cyberinfrastructure initiative that will serve the global heat transfer community. In Summer 2007, nearly twenty members of the heat transfer community collaborated on a successful proposal to the NSF to obtain a two-year planning grant that will support the definition and development of a wide range of innovative cyberinfrastructure resources for our community. These resources are being consolidated through this web portal, whose basic structure is modeled after the successful nanoHUB.org implementation.
We are now in the development stage of this exciting resource, and we are reaching out to members of the global heat transfer community to help them develop and publish tools, ranging from basic to advanced levels, that would be of value to our field. This developers workshop is intended to teach participants how to develop user interfaces for web-based deployment on thermalHUB. Various types of tools could be developed. For example, they could involve computational simulations of heat transfer physics, or a guided catalog of heat transfer correlations. The tools simply need to be amenable to web deployment (typically through our custom-developed Rappture software), and the developers can decide whether they provide the basic source code or just the executables. If you or someone in your group would like to develop such a tool, please complete the workshop application form. Travel funds from the NSF grant will be available to participants from academia. |