Award and Prize Winners

Each year, the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics presents the Fluid Dynamics Prize, the Stanley Corrsin Award, the François Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics, and the Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics. The 2023 award winners are listed below, and each awardee will give a lecture at the Meeting.

10:30 am – 12:55 pm
Level 3, Ballroom ABC

10:30 am – 11:25 am Update from the DFD Executive Committee, Presentation of Awards, DFD Fellowships
11:25 am – 12:10 pm Otto LaPorte Lecture
12:10 pm – 12:55 pm Stanley Corrsin Award Lecture

This prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to fundamental fluid dynamics research. It was established in 1979 with support from the Office of Naval Research. In 2004, the Otto Laporte Award was combined with the Fluid Dynamics Prize, so the Division of Fluid Dynamics would have a single major prize – the Fluid Dynamics Prize. The prize is now supported by the Division of Fluid Dynamics, friends of Otto Laporte, and the APS journal Physical Review Fluids. It is awarded for outstanding contributions to fundamental fluid dynamics research.

Recipient: Elisabeth Guazzelli, MSC Université Paris Cité

Citation: For her ground-breaking experiments on multiple aspects of fluid-particle systems, including particle fluctuations and cluster formation; for major advances in the unification of the rheological description of dry granular media and dense “wet” suspensions; for her decisive guidance of theory through focused and creative experiments; and for her leadership in the fluid mechanics community.

Lecture Details:
C01.00002
11:25 am – 12:10 pm, Sunday, November 19, 2023
Room: Ballroom ABC

This Award recognizes and encourages a particularly influential contribution to fundamental fluid dynamics. It was established from an endowment fund contributed by the DFD and held by the APS and is intended to honor a recent achievement of especially high impact and significance, a particular discovery, or an innovation in the field.

Recipient: George Haller, ETH Zurich

Citation: For long-lasting contributions to the predictive understanding and mathematical underpinnings of nonlinear dynamics of fluid flows and Lagrangian Coherent Structures, and for novel data-driven approaches to reduced order modeling.

Talk Details:
C01.00003
12:10 pm –12:55 pm, Sunday November 19, 2023
Room: Ballroom ABC

This award recognizes exceptional early-career scientists who have performed original doctoral thesis work of outstanding scientific quality and achievement in fluid dynamics. It was established in 1998 to honor the many outstanding contributions to fluid mechanics of Dr. Andreas Acrivos, particularly his years of distinguished editorship of Physics of Fluids. It is supported by donations from members and friends of the Division of Fluid Dynamics.

Recipient: Karol Antoni Bacik, University of Bath

Citation: For an elegant study of dune-dune repulsion and dune-obstacle interaction using laboratory experiments, data analysis, and mathematical modeling, elucidating the intricate feedback between sediment dynamics and fluid mechanics.

Talk Details:
ZA01
11:40 am –12:00 pm, Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Level 3, Ballroom A

The Division of Fluid Dynamics awards the François Frenkiel Award to young investigators to recognize significant contributions to Fluid Mechanics that have also been published during the previous year in Physical Review Fluids. Eligible authors must have not more than 12 years of full-time employment after their most advanced academic degree was awarded before the paper’s year of publication.

Recipients: Aliénor Rivière¹, Daniel J. Ruth², Wouter Mostert³, Luc Deike^2,4, and Stéphane Perrard^1,5,*
For their paper “Capillary driven fragmentation of large gas bubbles in turbulence,” Phys. Rev. Fluids 7, 083602 – Published 30 August 2022

Citation: For developing remarkable insights into the size distribution of fragmenting bubbles in turbulent flows and validating the theoretical predictions through experiments and direct numerical simulations.

Presenter: Aliénor Rivière.

Talk Details:
ZA01
11:40 am –12:00 pm, Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Level 3, Ballroom B

Author Affiliations
¹ Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, CNRS, ESPCI Paris, University PSL, Paris, France
² Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
³ Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
⁴ High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
⁵ LPENS, Département de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL University, Paris, France