The Batchelor Prize is an award presented once every four years by the
International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
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(IUTAM) for outstanding research in
fluid dynamics
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. The prize of $25,000 is sponsored by the
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
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The journal is published by Cambridge Uni ...
and presented at the International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM). The research recognised by the Prize will normally have been published during the ten-year period prior to the award to ensure that the work is of current interest.
The award is named in honour of
George Batchelor
George Keith Batchelor FRS (8 March 1920 – 30 March 2000) was an Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist.
He was for many years a Professor of Applied Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, and was founding head of the De ...
, an
Australian
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applied
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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and fluid dynamicist.
Recipients
Source
IUTAM*2020:
Alexander Smits
Alexander John Smits (born December 25, 1948) is an Australian-American engineer and academic who is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is also the director of the Gas dyna ...
,
Princeton University
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*2016:
Raymond E. Goldstein,
University of Cambridge
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*2012:
Detlef Lohse
Detlef Lohse (born 15 September 1963 in Hamburg) is a German physicist and professor in the University of Twente's Department of Physics of Fluids in the Netherlands.
Biography
Lohse studied at the University of Kiel and University of Bonn, gr ...
*2008:
Howard A. Stone
See also
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