The Batchelor Prize is an award presented once every four years by the
International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) for outstanding research in
fluid dynamics
In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids – liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including (the study of air and other gases in motion ...
. The prize of $25,000 is sponsored by the
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 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, an
Australian applied
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...
and fluid dynamicist.
Recipients
Source
IUTAM*2024:
Charles Meneveau,
Johns Hopkins University
*2020:
Alexander Smits,
Princeton University
*2016:
Raymond E. Goldstein,
University of Cambridge
*2012:
Detlef Lohse
*2008:
Howard A. Stone
See also
*
List of physics awards
*
List of prizes named after people
References
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Physics awards
Awards established in 2008