Fluid Dynamics Award Open for Nominations 10 November 2024 – 15 January 2025

Award Recipients

2023

• Prof Kozo Fujii
  Tokyo University of Science

  Awarded

  Award: 2023 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award

  AIAA Citation: For many pioneering contributions to robust and efficient computational algorithms and their application to solve major industrial challenges using leading-edge supercomputers.

2022

• Dr Mujeeb R Malik
  NASA-Langley Research Center

  Awarded

  Award: 2022 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award

  AIAA Citation: "For numerous and significant contributions to the understanding and control of laminar­ turbulent boundary-layer transition, and for exceptional leadership, particularly in the area of certification-by-analysis."

2021

• Prof Charles Meneveau
  Johns Hopkins University

  Awarded

  Award: 2001 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award

  AIAA Citation: For advancing both the theoretical and practical understanding of turbulence through groundbreaking modeling techniques and applications of large-eddy simulation.

2020

• Dr Nadine Aubry
  Tufts

  Awarded

  Award: 2020 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award

  AIAA Citation: For outstanding contributions to the reduced order modeling of turbulent flows and to microfluidics.

2019

• Dr Hermann F Fasel
  University of Arizona

  Awarded

  Award: 2019 Fluid Dynamics Award

  AIAA Citation: For pioneering innovation and leadership for using computational fluid dynamics as a tool for the scientific analysis of hydrodynamic instability mechanisms, transition to turbulence, and active flow control.

2018

• Dr Helen L Reed PE
  Texas A&M University

  Awarded

  Award: 2018 Fluid Dynamics Award

  AIAA Citation: For lifetime achievements in the fundamental understanding, modeling, and control of boundary-layer laminar-to-turbulent transition for aerospace vehicles from subsonic to hypersonic.

2017

• Dr Miguel R Visbal
  USAF AFRL/RQVA

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For pioneering contributions to understanding complex unsteady flows and multidisciplinary interactions using high fidelity methods.

2016

• Prof Moshe Matalon
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For contributions to the development of combustion theory, for revolutionizing understanding of chemically reacting flows, and for work on the hydrodynamic theory of premixed flames.

2015

• Prof Philip L Roe
  University of Michigan

  Awarded

  Award: -

  AIAA Citation: For seminal contributions to the design of numerical algorithms for simulations of compressible flows."

2014

• Prof Paul E Dimotakis
  California Institute of Technology

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: "For fundamental contributions to turbulent mixing and combustion through careful and thorough experiments using novel techniques."

2013

• Prof Donald O Rockwell
  Lehigh University

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For contributions to a fundamental understanding of vortex dominated flows and their characterization with quantitative imaging.

2012

• Prof Graham V Candler
  University of Minnesota

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For the development of advanced computational methodologies to predict flow stability and transition to turbulence in complex configurations.

2011

• Dr Hans G Hornung
  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For numerous important theoretical and experimental contributions related to the transition between normal and Mach reflections and nonequlibrium boundary layer transition.

2010

• Bram Van Leer
  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For seminal groundbreaking work in computational fluid dynamics, especially in the development of shock capturing methods, and outstanding contributions in aerospace education.

2009

• Dr Parviz Moin
  Stanford University

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For seminal contributions to turbulence research, particularly the advancement and application of large-eddy and direct simulation, and for leadership in the fluid mechanics community.

2008

• Dr Marvin E Goldstein
  NASA Glenn Research Center

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For seminal theoretical contributions to rapid-distortion theory towards understanding the roles of receptivity and nonlinearity in transition to turbulence, and towards explaining the boundary-layer Klebanoff modes.

2007

• Dr Ronald J Adrian
  Arizona State University

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For landmark contributions in the development of laser Doppler velocimetry, particle image velocimetry and stochastic estimation techniques, and for sustained leadership in fluid dynamics.

2006

• Dr Philippe R Spalart
  Boeing Commercial Airplanes

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: In recognition of contributions to applied turbulence modeling and of pioneering work in the direct simulation of turbulent boundary layers and in merging fluid dynamics concepts and aero-acoustic models for aircraft-related noise predictions.

2005

• Dr Jay P Boris
  Naval Research Laboratory

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For pioneering and seminal contributions to the fields of computational fluid dynamics, reacting flows, and atmospheric contaminant transport.

2004

• Prof Alexander J Smits
  Princeton University

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For innovative experimental research in turbulent flows

2003

• Prof William S Saric
  Texas A&M University

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For pioneering work on flow instabilities, their understanding, prediction and their control for the betterment of aeronautical products

2002

• Dr Fazle Hussain
  Texas Tech University

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For his seminal contributions towards the understanding of turbulence through quantitative analyses of coherent structures and insights into their consequences to the aerodynamic context

2001

• Dr Israel J Wygnanski
  University of Arizona

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For his fundamental contributions to our understanding of organized motion in free and bound shear flows and for his pioneering leadership in active flow control

2000

• Prof Roddam Narasimha
  Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For new insights into many branches of fluid dynamics, including transition and the interface between laminar and turbulent flows, turbulent shear flows and the atmospheric surface layer, and rarefied gas dynamics, as well as for his exceptional leadership in aeronautics research and teaching

1999

• Prof William C Reynolds
  Stanford University

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For pioneering contributions in turbulence physics and applications through innovative experimental, analytical, and computational research, and in chemical equilibrium analysis of complex multi-phase systems

1998

• Prof Anatol Roshko
  California Institute of Technology

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For research and teaching in gas dynamics and turbulence, particularly separated flow, bluff-body aerodynamics, and the structure of turbulent flow

1997

• Dr Milton D Van Dyke
  Stanford University

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For pioneering contributions in perturbation methods and profound influence on the use of analytical methods in aeronautics through the text ''Perturbation Methods in Fluid Mechanics

1996

• Prof Robert W MacCormack
  Stanford Univeresity

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For pioneering work in Computational Fluid Dynamics and the development of numerical algorithms which are used all over the world

1995

• Philip G Saffman
  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of vortex dynamics and turbulence

1994

• Peter Bradshaw
  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For contributions to the understanding and prediction of turbulent flow, with special reference to aeronautical applications; and for contributions to experimental techniques in aerodynamics

1993

• Dr Antony Jameson
  Stanford University

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: In recognition of numerous contributions to computational fluid dynamics and the development of many widely used computer programs which have immeasurably improved the capability to analyze and understand complex flows

1992

• Prof Julian D Cole
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For outstanding and pioneering contributions in perturbation theory, computational transonic aerodynamics, and hypersonic flow theory that have provided the foundation for numerous advances in aeronautics

1991

• Dennis M Bushnell
  NASA Langley Research Center

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For exceptional leadership and inventiveness in turbulence control for drag reduction and for supersonic low-disturbance wind tunnels, and for significant pioneering work in high Mach number turbulent boundary layers, slot injection, and turbulence modeling

1990

• Prof Hans W Liepmann
  California Inst of Technology

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For contributions to the theory and practice of compressible flows; for his insight into the fundamental phenomena of transition and turbulence; and for his educational activities that produced leaders in fluid dynamics

1989

• R Thomas Davis
  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For pioneering contribution coupling theoretical analysis and computational techniques for the solution high Reynolds number viscous flow applications from low speed to hypersonic flight conditions

1988

• Dr Harold Mirels
  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For outstanding personal innovation and technical leadership that established key guidelines for the modeling and scaling of plasma physics and chemical lasers

1987

• Dr Gino Moretti
  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For pioneering work in computational fluid dynamics, and the application of innovative numerical techniques to complex problems in gas dynamics. By stressing the need for consistency between computational models and fluid physics, he has set a standard for all those involved in CFD

1986

• Dr Steven A Orszag
  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For pioneering research in conceiving and developing new methods for the numerical simulation of fluid flows, and his unique contributions toward understanding the nonlinear behavior of fluids in motion

1985

• Dr Edward T Gerry
  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For inventiveness and leadership in the development of the CO2 gas-dynamic laser and for his many contributions to revealing the relevant physics

1984

• Dr Tuncer Cebeci
  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For outstanding contributions to the understanding and numerical computation of aerodynamic flows, in particular the problems of two and three dimensional laminar and turbulent boundary layers.

1983

• Prof Seymour M Bogdonoff
  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For outstanding contributions to the understanding of the behavior of liquids and gases in motion and of the physical properties and dynamical behavior of matter in the plasma state as related to needs in aeronautics and astronautics.

1982

• Prof John L Lumley
  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For outstanding contributions to the understanding, analysis,and experimental techniques in turbulence, polymer, additives, and particle motions in fluids

1981

• Dr Arthur Kantrowitz
  Dartmouth College

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For leadership and profound influence in broad areas of science and technology through the inspired application of fluid and plasma dynamics to the disciplines of atomic and molecular physics, electromagnetics, optics and medicine

1980

• Dr Eli Reshotko
  Case Western Reserve University

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For outstanding contribution to the understanding of the behavior of liquids and gases in motion and of the physical properties and dynamical behavior of matter in the plasma state as related to needs in aeronautics and astronautics

1979

• Prof Charles H Kruger
  Stanford University

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For outstanding contributions to nonequilibrium high temperature flows as related to needs in aeronautics and astronautics

1978

• Dr Charles E Treanor
  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For innovative research in nonequilibrium gas flows. His work in molecular energy transfer kinetics and numerical modeling methods has provided major theoretical bases for analyzing gas dynamic lasers. His scientific leadership has been clearly manifested through technical publications, research management activities and service to his profession

1977

• Mr. Harvard Lomax
  NASA

  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For outstanding contributions to the theoretical analysis of supersonic aerodynamics by small perturbation theory and to the computer stimulation of aerodynamic problems by pioneering research in the development of numerical methods with application to computational fluid dynamics.

1976

• Dr Mark V Morkovin
  Awarded

  AIAA Citation: For outstanding personal contributions in basic and applied research on transition and turbulent flow, and for many years of service as a stimulating and stabilizing influence on research in this field