The Fluid Dynamics Prize is a prize that has been awarded annually by the
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...
(APS) since 1979. The recipient is chosen for "outstanding achievement in
fluid dynamics
In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids— liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including ''aerodynamics'' (the study of air and other gases in motion) a ...
research". The prize is currently valued at . In 2004, the
Otto Laporte Award
The Otto Laporte Award (1972–2003) was an annual award by the American Physical Society (APS) to "recognize outstanding contributions to fluid dynamics" and to honour Otto Laporte (1902–1971). It was established as the Otto Laporte Memorial ...
—another APS award on fluid dynamics—was merged into the Fluid Dynamics Prize.
Recipients
The Fluid Dynamics Prize has been awarded to:
* 2021:
* 2020:
Katepalli Sreenivasan
* 2019:
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 ...
* 2018:
Keith Moffatt
Henry Keith Moffatt, FRS FRSE (born 12 April 1935) is a Scottish mathematician with research interests in the field of fluid dynamics, particularly magnetohydrodynamics and the theory of turbulence. He was Professor of Mathematical Physics at ...
* 2017:
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 ...
* 2016:
Howard A. Stone
* 2015:
Morteza Gharib
* 2014:
Geneviève Comte-Bellot
* 2013:
Elaine Surick Oran
* 2012:
John F. Brady
* 2011:
Tony Maxworthy
* 2010:
E. John Hinch
* 2009:
Stephen B. Pope
* 2008:
* 2007:
* 2006:
Thomas S. Lundgren
* 2005:
Ronald J. Adrian
* 2004:
* 2003:
* 2002:
Gary Leal
* 2001:
Howard Brenner
Howard Brenner (16 March 1929 – 17 February 2014) was a professor emeritus of chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research profoundly influenced the field of fluid dynamics, and his research contribution to funda ...
* 2000:
* 1999:
Daniel D. Joseph
* 1998:
Fazle Hussain
A. K. M. Fazle Hussain (born 20 January 1943, in Bangladesh) is a professor of mechanical engineering at Texas Tech University.
Education
Hussain graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technol ...
* 1997:
Louis Norberg Howard
Louis Norberg Howard (March 12, 1929 – June 28, 2015) was an American mathematician who was professor emeritus of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-g ...
* 1996:
Parviz Moin
Parviz Moin ( fa, پرویز معین ''Parviz Mo'in'' born October 23, 1952, Valandan, Shahreza, Iran) is a fluid dynamicist. He is the Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Moin has be ...
* 1995:
Harry L Swinney
* 1994:
Stephen H. Davis
Stephen Howard Davis (September 7, 1939 – November 12, 2021) was an American applied mathematician working in the fields of fluid mechanics and materials science. Davis was the McCormick School Institute Professor and the Walter P. Murphy Prof ...
* 1993:
Theodore Yao-tsu Wu
* 1992:
William R. Sears
William Rees Sears (March 1, 1913 – October 12, 2002) was an aeronautical engineer and educator who worked at Caltech, Northrop Aircraft, Cornell University (as the J. L. Given Professor of Engineering), and the University of Arizona.
He was a ...
* 1991:
Andreas Acrivos
Andreas Acrivos (born 13 June 1928) is the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering, Emeritus at the City College of New York. He is also the director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics.
Education and c ...
* 1990:
John L. Lumley
* 1989:
* 1988:
* 1987:
Anatol Roshko
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Anatol Roshko (15 July 1923 – 23 January 2017) was a Canadian-born physicist and engineer. He was the Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
Roshko is known f ...
* 1986:
Robert T. Jones
* 1985:
Chia-Shun Yih
Chia-Shun Yih (; July 25, 1918 – April 25, 1997) was the Stephen P. Timoshenko Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He made many significant contributions to fluid mechanics. Yih was also a seal artist.
...
* 1984:
George Carrier
* 1983:
Stanley Corrsin
* 1982:
Howard W. Emmons
* 1981:
* 1980:
Hans Wolfgang Liepmann
* 1979:
Chia Chiao Lin
See also
*
List of physics awards
This list of physics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for physics.
The list includes lists of awards by the American Physical Society of the United States, and of the Institute of Physics of the United Kingdom, followed by a l ...
References
External links
Fluid Dynamics Prize American Physical Society
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Awards established in 1979
Awards of the American Physical Society