Inside... Seattle and the Puget Sound Region Offer a and Visitors Bureau Tremendous Depth and Diversity of Cultural DFD Offerings for Visitors and Residents

Inside... Seattle and the Puget Sound Region Offer a and Visitors Bureau Tremendous Depth and Diversity of Cultural DFD Offerings for Visitors and Residents

SPRING/SUMMER 2004 DFDDFDDFD Division of Fluid Dynamics Newsletter News A Division of The American Physical Society APS-DFD MEETINGS THE 57TH ANNUAL DFD MEETING SEATTLE, WASHINGTON NOVEMBER 21-23, 2004 MEETING VENUE The site for the meeting is the Westin Seattle Hotel, located in the heart of downtown Seattle with easy access to the thriving shop- ping district, a great international restaurant community, and such popular attractions as the Pike Place Market, historic Pioneer Square, the Space Needle, and Seattle’s exciting waterfront. SEATTLE View of Seattle's Convention Inside... Seattle and the Puget Sound region offer a and Visitors Bureau tremendous depth and diversity of cultural DFD offerings for visitors and residents. Performances, sponsorship, please contact Meetings And More 2 Meetings galleries, museums, concerts, festivals, and at- at (301) 229-1037 or mtgs911@aol.com. tractions offer limitless possibilities to experience 2003 DFD art, history and culture. From edgy contemporary MEETING HOSTS 4 Fellows and youthful innovation to more traditional and classic forms of expression, we encourage you The University of Washington 5 DFD Notes to discover and explore the creative vitality that Washington State University makes Seattle a great place to live and visit. Enjoy The University of Oregon the fine art of living, Seattle style. The University of British Columbia Prizes & Northwest Research Associates 6 Awards Website: www.seeseattle.org (Seattle’s The Boeing Company Convention and Visitors Bureau) Personal 7 Notes CONFERENCE WEBSITE EXHIBITORS http://depts.washington.edu/apsdfd04/ 2004 Do not miss this opportunity to reach over 8 Committees 1000 attendees of the APS/DFD Annual Meeting! For more information on exhibiting or 2 PROGRAM INFORMATION Fax: (206) 382-6996 Website: www.mayflowerpart.com James J. Riley, Organizing Committee Chair Rate: $109 single or double + tax University of Washington Department of Mechanical Engineering The unique Mayflower Park Hotel is located about one Phone: 206 543-5347 block from the Westin Seattle Hotel in the heart of down- Email: rileyj@u.washington.edu town Seattle. Built in 1927, this historic property blends old world charm with modern day amenities. Whether trav- Peter J. Schmid, Organizing Committee co-Chair eling on business or pleasure, the Mayflower Park Hotel University of Washington meets the needs of the most discerning guest. Each of Department of Applied Mathematics the 171 spacious and comfortably appointed guest rooms Phone: 206 685-2971 are attractively decorated with elegant Queen Anne fur- Email: pjs@amath.washington.edu nishings. All guests will enjoy the warm, professional staff service in this European style hotel. GENERAL MEETING & EXHIBITING INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAM Meetings And More 5257 River Road, PMB 905 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Bethesda, MD 20816 This year’s scientific program will include three award Tel.: (301) 229-1037 lectures, seven invited lectures, five mini-symposia, con- Fax: (301) 229-0206 tributed papers, exhibits, and the Gallery of Fluid Motion. Email: mtgs911@aol.com The invited lectures are selected to illustrate the richness of topics, techniques and applications inherent in the study HOUSING of fluid dynamics. More than 950 contributed abstracts, divided into 14 concurrent sessions, are anticipated. The Westin Seattle (meeting site) 1900 Fifth Avenue Seattle, WA 98101-1281 AWARD PROGRAM Tel: (206) 728-1000 Each year the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Fax: (206) 727-5896 presents several awards: the Fluid Dynamics Prize, the Website: www.westin.com/seattle Francois Frenkiel Award, and the Andreas Acrivos Rate: $129 single or double plus tax Dissertation Award. Winners of these awards will be (currently 15.6%) announced in the fall. A lecture by each award winner will be given at the meeting. The Westin Seattle, a landmark of the Seattle skyline, is just steps away from the Washington State Convention Center, Pike Place Market and Seattle’s most INVITED LECTURES enticing shops. The hotel’s famed architecture features two Tom Daniel, University of Washington unique circular towers that afford spectacular views from Aeroelastic Coupling in Insect Flight? every guest room. Guests enjoy unique views of the city, Mory Gharib, Caltech Lake Union and Puget Sound; also the convenience of The Fluid Mechanics of Heart Failures High Speed Internet Access, dual-line speaker phones with Edward Greitzer, MIT voice mail, and many other amenities will be available in Topics in Air-Breathing Propulsion all guest rooms. Ellen Longmire, University of Minnesota Pinch-off and Coalescence in Liquid-liquid mixtures Mayflower Park Hotel Julio Ottino, Northwestern University 405 Olive Way Dynamics of segregation, mixing, and coarsening Seattle, WA 98101 of granular matter Tel: (206) 623-8700 3 Peter Rhines, University of Washington SUBSEQUENT DFD MEETINGS Global Climate meets Dynamics in the Fluids 2005, Chicago, IL. Contact: Richard Lueptow, Northwest- Laboratory ern University Philippe Spalart, Boeing 2006, tentatively planned to be held at a site in Florida Research Directions in Unsteady Aerodynamics HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 56TH MINI-SYMPOSIA ANNUAL MEETING, NYC/NEW JERSEY Motion of Aquatic Organisms (BY MARK GLAUSER, CHAIR) Multi-Phase Flows Packing of Colloidal Particles The November 2003 DFD meeting in NYC/New Surface Wave Breaking Jersey concluded with more than 1325 registrants, 1150 Supersonic Turbulence contributed and invited lectures, 56 poster and 26 video submissions to the Gallery of Fluid Motion, and 14 exhibi- tors. The meeting events began early Sunday morning with AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT the opening sessions of the technical program. The Awards For the first time an LCD projector and a computer will ceremony took place in the afternoon. The 2003 Fluid be provided in each room for both invited and Dynamics Prize recipient was Dr. Jerry Gollub of Haverford contributed talks. In addition, in each session room there College, who presented his lecture entitled “Nonlinear will be an overhead projector, screen, laser pointer, and Dynamics of Fluid Motion.’’ The 2003 Otto LaPorte Award lapel microphone. More details on how to utilize this equip- recipient was Dr. Norman J. Zabusky from Rutgers Univer- ment will be provided in an email this summer, and on the sity who presented his lecture entitled “Visionmetrics: From meeting web-site. Solitions to Vortex Projectiles—Art and Science of Fluid Motions.’’ The 2003 Francois Frenkiel Award was presented to Dr Maxime Nicolas of Ecole Polytechnique in Marseille SOCIAL ACTIVITIES SOCIAL ACTIVITIES France. The 2003 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation was presented to Prosenjit Bagchi who did his doctoral thesis CONFERENCE RECEPTION work at UIUC. Meeting activities on Sunday were topped A highlight of the meeting will be the Conference off with the Sunday evening reception which was held at Reception on Sunday evening, November 21, 2004. The New York City’s most celebrated restaurant, the world Reception will be held at the world famous famous Tavern on the Green, which is located in Central Museum of Flight. All paid attendees receive a ticket to Park. This was a wonderful evening and the weather for this event. late November was splendid! The meeting also included The Museum of Flight features 54 of the world’s most outstanding invited lectures by William K. George, Philip awe-inspiring airplanes—authentic and in mint condition. A. Blythe, Sheldon Weinbaum, Robert Moser, William Saric, In the steel and glass Great Gallery, the history of aviation Lance Collins, Lars Bildsten and Erich E. Kunhardt. soars past, with dozens of full-size aircraft flying in formation six stories above. Sit in the cockpit of a real We continued the very successful Graduate Student th SR-71 Blackbird or F/A-18 Hornet. Step back 85 years in Luncheon (initiated by Peter Raad at the 55 Annual the magnificently restored Red Barn®, birthplace of The Meeting) to give our students the opportunity to partici- Boeing Company. Including hands-on kid's workshops, the pate in discussions with experts on topics of interest while Museum of Flight offers something to every guest. Come enjoying a complimentary box lunch. The 2003 APS/DFD experience the story of flight from the dawn of aviation to Graduate Student luncheon was organized with two simul- the Space Age. taneous sessions on Monday 11/24/03 during lunch. Session 1 was entitled “Grantsmanship, Prospects for Website: www.museumofflight.org Securing Funds from Federal Agencies: ONR, NSF & ARO perspectives.” Mike Plesniak (NSF) and Ron Joslin (ONR) gave informal overviews of their respective programs and DEADLINES Mark Glauser served as moderator for the discussion. Abstract Submission…………………6 August 2004 Session 2 was entitled “Emerging areas of Research & 4 Technology Commercialization - Inventions & Technology a Sphere, Thomas Leweke, Mark. C. Thompson and Kerry Commercialization” by Erich Kunhardt (Stevens Institute Hourigan; Bubble Dynamics at Boundaries at of Technology). Volkan Otugan and Siva Thangam served Microsecond Time Scales, Robert Schueler, Kevin as moderators. About 110 students attended the sessions Cissner, and Roger Becker; Chaotic Mixing in (60 in the first and 50 in the second). There was a consid- Viscous Fluids, Mario Alvarez, Troy Shinbrot and Fernando erable amount of discussion during and after the sessions. Muzzio; Taylor-Saffman Instability in a Hele-Shaw Cell, Informal feedback from the attendees after the sessions Marilyn Poon, Robert Neilson, Dustin Grace, Jessica

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