SPRING 2001 DFDDFDDFD Division of Fluid Dynamics Newsletter News A Division of The American Physical Society 2000 DFD FELLOWS Sam R. Coriell, National Institute of Standards Gretar Tryggvason, University of Michigan. and Technology For pioneering the use of direct numerical For fundamental contributions to the theory of simulations of the study of finite Reynolds number interaction between hydrodynamics and multiphase flows, including the development of morphological instabilities during solidification. computational methods and studies of bubbly flows. Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, University of Notre Dame Daniel Weihs, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology For his original contributions to reactive For outstanding contributions to aircraft controls of turbulent flows, pioneering work in performance, animal locomotion and behavior, developing laser-induced fluorescence fishing industry and ecoenvironmental quality. techniques, and definitive experiments detailing fluid-compliant surface interactions. Dominique Salin, Laboratoire FAST For significant contributions in the development Juan Lasheras, University of California, San Diego of experimental methods and lattice gas For landmark contributions to the fundamen- simulations that led to improved understanding tal understanding of combustion, free shear flows, of flows in Hele-Shaw cells and porous media particle/fluid interaction, and turbulence induced and of suspensions. Inside... atomization of imiscible fluids. NOTE: Referred to FIP by 2000 DFD committee Omar Sevas, University of California, Berkeley For contributios to the understanding of fluid Nominations For Prizes & flows through innovative experimentation in 2 Awards boundary layers, rotating flows, contributions, and DFD Officers vortex dynamics. The APS/DFD Nominating Committee is soliciting DFD Meeting Eric S. G. Shaqfeh, Stanford University nominations for the offices of Vice-Chair, Division 3 Info For applying statistical theories and numerical Councillor, and Executive Committee Member (2 simulations to determine the averaged equations open positions). Suggestions for nominations from for fiber suspensions and polymeric fluids the APS/DFD membership should be sent to Short-Takes and elucidating the physical mechanism leading Professor Brian Cantwell 7 to hydrodynamic instabilities of complex fluids. Chair of the Nominating Committee Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics William A. Sirignano, University of California, Irvine Stanford University 2001 For his pioneering efforts in combining model- Durand Bldg Room 27 8 Committee ing and simulation of complex multiphase flows, Stanford CA 94305-4035 Membership and for the understanding these models have office: 650-723-4825; provided for pool fires and capillary instabilities. email: [email protected] by APRIL 30,2001. Please note that the Vice-Chair serves successively as Chair-Elect, then as Chair and Past–chair of the Division. 2 2000 DFD Prize & Award Winners FLUID D YNAMICS P RIZE R ECIPIENT Nominations for 2002 Professor Friedrich Hermann Busse of the FLUID D YNAMICS P RIZE University of Bayreuth. Nominations should be sent to the 2002 For his seminal and extensive contributions to the Committee Chair: understanding of instabilities in convective and rotating flows, for his development of upper-bound theories and Professor William Reynolds their application to complex fluid flows, and for his use of Department of Mechanical Engineering fluid mechanics to elucidate geophysical and Stanford University astrophysical problems. Bldg 500 Room 501G Lecture title: Stanford CA 94305-3030 "Homogeneous Dynamos in Planets and in the Laboratory" Phone: (650) 723-3840 Fax: (650) 723-4548 OTTO L APORTE A WARD R ECIPIENT E-mail: [email protected] Professor Hassan Aref of the University of Illinois. For his pioneering contributions to the study ofchaotic OTTO L APORTE A WARD motion in fluids, scientific computation, and vortex Nominations should be sent to the 2002 dynamics, and most notably for the development of the Committee Chair: concept of chaotic advection. Lecture title: Professor Charles Meneveau "The Development of Chaotic Department of Mechanical Engineering Advection" The Johns Hopkins University 200 Latrobe Hall FRANCOIS F RENKIEL A WARD 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 Michael P. Brenner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Phone: 410-516-7132 For his paper, "Screening Mechanisms for sedimentation," Fax: 410-516-4316 published in Physics of Fluids, Vol. 11, pp. 754-772 (1999). For E-mail: [email protected] a fresh approach to the long-standing paradox of the divergence of velocity fluctuations in an infinite sedimenting suspension based on physical intuition, scaling arguments, and numerical simulations. ACRIVOS D ISSERTATION A WARD R ECIPIENT Dr. Vittorio Cristini, who received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Yale University. His advisor was Professor Michael Loewenberg. For important theoretical and numerical contributions to the description and understanding of drop dynamics and breakup in laminar and turbulent flows. Dissertation title: "Drop Dynamics in Viscous Flow" 3 DFD MEETING 54th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics November 18-20, 2001 GENERAL I NFORMATION AWARDS P ROGRAM The 2001 APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 54th Each year the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics presents Annual Meeting (DFD01) will be held in San Diego, several awards, including the Fluid Dynamics Prize, the November 18-20, 2001. The meeting will be hosted by Otto Laporte Award, the Francois Frenkiel Award, and the the University of California, San Diego. Most of the Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award. Winners of these conference planning will be executed by the staff of the awards will be announced at the meeting. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at UCSD. 2001 MEETING S ITE Important Info The 2001 DFD Annual Meeting will be held at the Marriott Hotel and Marina located on San Diego Harbor. DATES AND DEADLINES The hotel is on the water's edge, within walking distance Abstract Submission ............................... 8/10/01 of San Diego's newly revitalized Gaslamp Quarter, known Gallery of Fluid Motion Entry Forms ...... 10/05/01 for its nightlife and award winning restaurants. The Early Registration Deadline ................... 10/19/01 airport is only a 10-minute cab or shuttle ride away and Regular Registration Deadline .........10/20-11/2/01 the San Diego Trolley stops across the street from the Hotel Reservation .................................. 10/25/01 hotel. The San Diego Trolley runs through historic Old Video Entries to the Gallery of Fluids ... 10/21/01 Town and to the Mexican border; various attractions such Order Additional AV Equipment ............. 10/21/01 as the world famous San Diego Zoo and Sea World are Pre-Registration Cancellation ................... 11/5/01 within easy commuting distance of the hotel. The UCSD campus is approximately 15 miles north of the meeting PROGRAM INFORMATION site in the beautiful coastal community of La Jolla and is Professor Juan Lasheras easily accessible by freeway. For more information about Chair, Organizing Committee tourist attractions, please see the San Diego Convention Department of Mechanical and Aerospace & Visitors Bureau web site at www.sandiego.org. Engineering Engineering Building Unit II Room 150 University of California, San Diego 2001 SCIENTIFIC P ROGRAM 9500 Gilman Drive This year's scientific program will include two honor La Jolla, CA 92093-0411 lectures, eight invited lectures, two minisymposia, con- e-mail: [email protected] tributed papers, exhibits, and the Gallery of Fluid Mo- tion. The invited lectures are selected to illustrate the GENERAL MEETING INFORMATION richness of topics, techniques and applications inher- Harriet Kounaves ent in the study of fluid dynamics.More than 950 Department of MAE contributedabstracts, divided into 15 concurrent UCSD Mail Code 0411 sessionsare anticipated. 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