Fluid Mechanics Prizes
Professor Timothy J. Pedley
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
University of Cambridge
Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Wilberforce Road
Cambridge CB3 0WA
England
email: T.J.Pedley@damtp.cam.ac.uk
For his seminal and outstanding contributions to fluid mechanics applied to biology and medicine, and for his distinguished service and leadership for the European and international fluid mechanics community
Professor Patrick Huerre
Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique
CNRS / Ecole Polytechnique
F - 91128 Palaiseau Cedex
France
email: huerre@ladhyx.polytechnique.fr
For his outstanding achievements in the field of hydrodynamic instabilities, and his major contributions to the European Mechanics community
Professor Uriel Frisch
Laboratoire Lagrange
Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
Boulevard de l’Observatoire
CS 34229 - F 06304 NICE Cedex
France
email: uriel@oca.eu
For his outstanding contribution to the modern theory of hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, including seminal work on statistical hydrodynamics, the multifractal formalism, and the numerical simulation of turbulent flows.
Javier Jimenez
Fluid Dynamics Group
School of Aeronautics
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Plaze de Cardenal Cisneros 3
Madrid, Spain
email:jimenez@torroja.dmt.upm.es
For his profound and lasting contributions to turbulence, notably wall turbulence, advancing our understanding through the introduction of groundbreaking physical concepts and for his pioneering work in numerical simulations of turbulent flows that have widespread educational influence.
Elisabeth Guazzelli
Groupe Ecoulements de Particules (GEP)
Laboratoire IUSTI - CNRS UMR 7343
5 rue Enrico Fermi
13453 Marseille cedex 13
France
email: elisabeth.guazzelli@univ-amu.fr
For extensive and careful experiments revealing complex phenomena in mobile particulate systems.
Andrea Prosperetti
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218
USA
email: prosper@jhu.edu
In recognition of his profound, seminal contributions to fluid dynamics and acoustics in general and to bubble dynamics and rain noise in particular, including the development of novel numerical techniques, and for his world leadership in these fields and his brilliance in their applications to engineering.
Yves Couder
Département de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure
24, rue Lhomond
75230 Paris Cedex 05
France
email: Yves.Couder@physique.ens.fr
For experiments in fluid mechanics which are novel, elegant, deep and provocative.
John Hinch
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP)
University of Cambridge
Wilberforce Road
Cambridge
CB3 0WA
UK
email: ejh1@cam.ac.uk
For his exceptionally insightful contributions to fluid mechanics covering an extraordinarily wide range of topics including micro-hydrodynamics, interfacial flows, colloidal dispersions, suspension mechanics and sedimentation, flow through porous media, particulate and granular flows, polymer rheology and non-Newtonian fluid dynamics and for his innovative contributions to a variety of industrial processes.
Friedrich Busse
Theoretical Physics
Universiät Bayreuth
95440 Bayreuth
Germany
email: Busse@uni-bayreuth.de
For his many outstanding contributions to fluid mechanics, most notably in the areas of thermal convection and pattern forming instabilities, geophysical flows and magnetohydrodynamic dynamos, and mathematical bounds on turbulent transport.
Emil Hopfinger
LEGI/IMG
Domaine Universitaire
B.P. Box 53
F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 09
France
email: emil.hopfinger@hmg.inpg.fr
For his seminal work in at least three major areas of fluid mechanics: Stratified flows, waves and gravity currents; Rotating flows and vortex dynamics; Turbulence, interfacial instabilities and atomization. For his scientific breadth and remarkable impact on several fundamental issues in the field, and last but not least for his distinguished service to the European Fluid Mechanics community.
Keith Moffatt
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP)
University of Cambridge
Wilberforce Road
Cambridge
CB3 0WA
UK
email: h.k.moffatt@damtp.cam.ac.uk
For his outstanding accomplishments and beautifully creative ideas in theoretical fluid mechanics which have had a lasting impact in the development of the field, in particular for his seminal contributions to the study of turbulence and magnetohydrodynamics with the identification of helicity as a key concept in the understanding of global flow features and the creation of the new field of topological fluid dynamics, for his equally impressive analyses of low Reynolds number flows with the introduction of the notions of Moffatt eddies in flows near a sharp corner and cusp singularities in free surface flows.