According to a recent notice from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the innovative research project named “Nonlinear Mechanics under the Interaction of Complex Environment and Medium”, which is headed by Professor Zhou Youhe and funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, has received formal approval to enter the second phase (lasting from January 2015 to December 2017) with a funding of 6 billion yuan. Before that, an executive summary of the work for the three-year-long first-phrase (with a funding of 6 billion yuan) and application for a continuous second-phase was submitted for evaluation.
The group began to prepare the work summary of the first phase and application for entering the second phase this August. Relevant materials were submitted by the end of August. The National Natural Science Foundation gathered experts in the areas of mathematics, physics, mechanics and astronomy to review the summary and application. Professor Zhou Youhe, head of the project, attended the evaluation meeting together with key members of the project, including Academician Zheng Xiaojing, Professor Wang Xingzhe and Professor Zhang Xingyi. On the meeting, Professor Zhou Youhe, on behalf of the research group, delivered a detailed PPT report on the work progress of the first phase and reasons and conditions for the application and answered the experts’ questions. The group’s achievements in the three areas of superconducting multi-field coupled nonlinear mechanics, cross-scale nonlinear mechanics under the complex windy and sandy environment system and quantitative analysis method of nonlinear problems received high evaluation among the experts. Not only experts on mechanics but also experts on mathematics and physics highly valued their achievements.
(Translated by Wei Xianchao; proofread by Sissi Xu)
