Recipients of the François Naftali Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics

Use the following list to navigate to both the Frenkiel Award announcements and the award-winning papers published in Physics of Fluids (from 1984 to the present). Click on the author's name to retrieve a PDF file of the announcement, and on the title to navigate to the abstract view of the published paper.

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Year Frenkiel Award Title of Award-Winning Paper
2008 Jonathan B. Freund Leukocyte margination in a model microvessel
2007 Re'em Sari First and second type self-similar solutions of implosions and explosions containing ultrarelativistic shocks
2006 Jan Skotheim and L. Mahadevan Soft Lubrication: The elastohydrodynamics of conforming and non-conforming contacts
2005 Roberto Verzicco Effects of nonperfect thermal sources in turbulent thermal convection
2004 Michael D. Graham Interfacial hoop stress and instability of viscoelastic free surface flows
2003 Maxime Nicolas Experimental study of gravity-driven dense suspension jets
2002 Jonathan P. Rothstein and Gareth H. McKinley Non-isothermal modification of purely elastic flow instabilities in torsional flows of polymeric fluids
2001 Stefano Cerutti and Charles Meneveau Statistics of filtered velocity in grid and wake turbulence
2000 Michael P. Brenner Screening mechanisms for sedimentation
1999 Anne D. Dussaud and Sandra Marina Troian Dynamics of spontaneous spreading with evaporation on a deep fluid layer
1998 Thomas Yizhao Hou, John Lowengrub, and Michael J. Shelly The long-time motion of vortex sheets with surface tension
1997 Krishnan Mahesh A model for the onset of vortex breakdown in an axisymmetric compressible vortex
1996 Rajat Mittal and Sivaramakrishnan Balachandar Effects of three-dimensionality on the lift and drag of nominally two-dimensional cylinders
1995 Gregory Lawrence Eyink The renormalization group method in statistical hydrodynamics
1994 Jeffrey W. Jacobs The dynamics of shock accelerated light and heavy gas cylinders
1993 David G. Dritschel and Darryn W. Waugh Quantification of the inelastic interaction of unequal vortices in two-dimensional vortex dynamics
1992 Kathleen J. Stebe, Shi-Yow Lin, and Charles Maldarelli Remobilizing surfactant retarded fluid particle interfaces. I. Stress-free conditions at the interfaces of micellar solutions of surfactants with fast sorption kinetics
1991 Hsueh-Chia Chang and Minquan Q. Cheng A generaliized sideband stability theory via center manifold projection
1990 Benigno J. Lázaro and Juan C. Lasheras Particle dispersion in a turbulent, plane, free shear layer
1989 Eric S. G. Shaqfeh A nonlocal theory for the heat transport in composites containing highly conducting fibrous inclusions
1988 Donald Lyle Koch Attenuation of a compressional sound wave in the presence of a fractal boundary
1987 Saleh Tanveer The effect of surface tension on the shape of a Hele-Shaw cell bubble
1986 Sanjiva K. Lele A consistency condition for Reynolds stress closures
1985 John C. Neu The dynamics of a columnar vortex in an imposed strain
1984 Eric Herbolzheimer Stability of the flow during sedimentation in inclined channels