Andrea Prosperetti is the Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the

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, the Berkhoff Professor of Applied Physics at the

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in the Netherlands and an elected member of the

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in 2012
"for contributions to the fundamentals and applications of multiphase flows"
. He is known for his work in the field of

multiphase flow In fluid mechanics, multiphase flow is the simultaneous flow of materials with two or more thermodynamic phases. Virtually all processing technologies from cavitating pumps and turbines to paper-making and the construction of plastics involve s ...

s including bubble dynamics and

cavitation Cavitation is a phenomenon in which the static pressure of a liquid reduces to below the liquid's vapour pressure, leading to the formation of small vapor-filled cavities in the liquid. When subjected to higher pressure, these cavities, cal ...

. He was the editor-in-chief of the

International Journal of Multiphase Flow The ''International Journal of Multiphase Flow'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering fluid mechanics. The editors-in-chief are Alfredo Soldati ( TU Wien) and S. Balachander ( U Florida). The founding editor was Gad Hetsroni (T ...

and serves on the editorial board of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. He completed his doctoral work in 1974 at the

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under the supervision of Milton Plesset (of the

Rayleigh–Plesset equation In fluid mechanics, the Rayleigh–Plesset equation or Besant–Rayleigh–Plesset equation is an ordinary differential equation which governs the Dynamics (mechanics), dynamics of a spherical liquid bubble, bubble in an infinite body of incompres ...

and

Møller–Plesset perturbation theory Møller–Plesset perturbation theory (MP) is one of several quantum chemistry post–Hartree–Fock ab initio methods in the field of computational chemistry. It improves on the Hartree–Fock method by adding electron correlation effects by m ...

) and holds a B.S. in Physics from Universitá di Milano, Italy (1968). Prosperetti was awarded the Fluid Dynamics Prize (the highest award in Fluid Mechanics) by the

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in 2003 "for breakthroughs in the theory of multiphase flows, the dynamics of bubble oscillations, underwater sound, and free-surface flows and for providing elegant explanations of paradoxical phenomena in these fields". In 2012, the

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awarded him the

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in Physical Acoustics "for contributions to bubble dynamics and multiphase flow." In addition, Prosperetti also won the 2014 EUROMECH Fluid Mechanics Prize (administered by the Council of the European Mechanics Society), the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001 by the

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, and the Fluids Engineering Award in 2005 by the

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. He is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the

, and the

. He has been a foreign member of the

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since 2000. He is the author of "Advanced Mathematics for Applications", a reference textbook for graduate-level engineers and also of "Computational Methods for Multiphase Flows", both published by the

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