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DFD DFD DFD DFD DFD News 2 DFD Meetings 4 2003 DFD Fellows 5 DFD Notes 6 Prizes & Awards 7 Personal Notes 8 2004 Committees Inside... SPRING/SUMMER 2004 Division of Fluid Dynamics Newsletter A Division of The American Physical Society THE HE HE HE HE 57 57 57 57 57TH TH TH TH TH A A A A ANNUAL NNUAL NNUAL NNUAL NNUAL DFD M DFD M DFD M DFD M DFD MEETING EETING EETING EETING EETING SEATTLE EATTLE EATTLE EATTLE EATTLE, W , W , W , W , WASHINGTON ASHINGTON ASHINGTON ASHINGTON ASHINGTON NOVEMBER OVEMBER OVEMBER OVEMBER OVEMBER 21-23, 2004 21-23, 2004 21-23, 2004 21-23, 2004 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 Seattle and the Puget Sound region offer a tremendous depth and diversity of cultural offerings for visitors and residents. Performances, galleries, museums, concerts, festivals, and at- tractions offer limitless possibilities to experience art, history and culture. From edgy contemporary and youthful innovation to more traditional and classic forms of expression, we encourage you to discover and explore the creative vitality that makes Seattle a great place to live and visit. Enjoy the fine art of living, Seattle style. Website: www .seeseattle .org (Seattle’s Convention and Visitors Bureau) EXHIBITORS Do not miss this opportunity to reach over 1000 attendees of the APS/DFD Annual Meeting! For more information on exhibiting or APS-DFD MEETINGS APS-DFD MEETINGS APS-DFD MEETINGS APS-DFD MEETINGS APS-DFD MEETINGS View of Seattle's Convention View of Seattle's Convention View of Seattle's Convention View of Seattle's Convention View of Seattle's Convention and Visitors Bureau and Visitors Bureau and Visitors Bureau and Visitors Bureau and Visitors Bureau sponsorship, please contact Meetings And More at (301) 229-1037 or [email protected]. MEETING HOSTS The University of Washington Washington State University The University of Oregon The University of British Columbia Northwest Research Associates The Boeing Company CONFERENCE WEBSITE http://depts.washington.edu/apsdfd04/

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MEETING VENUE

The site for the meeting is the WestinSeattle Hotel, located in the heart of downtownSeattle with easy access to the thriving shop-ping district, a great international restaurantcommunity, and such popular attractions as thePike Place Market, historic Pioneer Square, theSpace Needle, and Seattle’s exciting waterfront.

SEATTLE

Seattle and the Puget Sound region offer atremendous depth and diversity of culturalofferings for visitors and residents. Performances,galleries, museums, concerts, festivals, and at-tractions offer limitless possibilities to experienceart, history and culture. From edgy contemporaryand youthful innovation to more traditional andclassic forms of expression, we encourage youto discover and explore the creative vitality thatmakes Seattle a great place to live and visit. Enjoythe fine art of living, Seattle style.

Website: www.seeseattle.org (Seattle’sConvention and Visitors Bureau)

EXHIBITORS

Do not miss this opportunity to reach over1000 attendees of the APS/DFD AnnualMeeting! For more information on exhibiting or

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sponsorship, please contact Meetings And Moreat (301) 229-1037 or [email protected].

MEETING HOSTS

The University of WashingtonWashington State UniversityThe University of OregonThe University of British ColumbiaNorthwest Research AssociatesThe Boeing Company

CONFERENCE WEBSITE

http://depts.washington.edu/apsdfd04/

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PROGRAM INFORMATION

James J. Riley, Organizing Committee ChairUniversity of WashingtonDepartment of Mechanical Engineering Phone: 206 543-5347 Email: [email protected]

Peter J. Schmid, Organizing Committee co-ChairUniversity of WashingtonDepartment of Applied MathematicsPhone: 206 685-2971Email: [email protected]

GENERAL MEETING & EXHIBITING

INFORMATION

Meetings And More5257 River Road, PMB 905Bethesda, MD 20816Tel.: (301) 229-1037Fax: (301) 229-0206Email: [email protected]

HOUSING

The Westin Seattle (meeting site)1900 Fifth AvenueSeattle, WA 98101-1281Tel: (206) 728-1000Fax: (206) 727-5896Website: www.westin.com/seattleRate: $129 single or double plus tax(currently 15.6%)

The Westin Seattle, a landmark of the Seattleskyline, is just steps away from the Washington StateConvention Center, Pike Place Market and Seattle’s mostenticing shops. The hotel’s famed architecture features twounique circular towers that afford spectacular views fromevery guest room. Guests enjoy unique views of the city,Lake Union and Puget Sound; also the convenience ofHigh Speed Internet Access, dual-line speaker phones withvoice mail, and many other amenities will be available inall guest rooms.

Mayflower Park Hotel405 Olive WaySeattle, WA 98101Tel: (206) 623-8700

Fax: (206) 382-6996Website: www.mayflowerpart.comRate: $109 single or double + tax

The unique Mayflower Park Hotel is located about oneblock from the Westin Seattle Hotel in the heart of down-town Seattle. Built in 1927, this historic property blendsold world charm with modern day amenities. Whether trav-eling on business or pleasure, the Mayflower Park Hotelmeets the needs of the most discerning guest. Each ofthe 171 spacious and comfortably appointed guest roomsare attractively decorated with elegant Queen Anne fur-nishings. All guests will enjoy the warm, professional staffservice in this European style hotel.

ABOUT THE PROGRAMABOUT THE PROGRAMABOUT THE PROGRAMABOUT THE PROGRAMABOUT THE PROGRAM

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

This year’s scientific program will include three awardlectures, seven invited lectures, five mini-symposia, con-tributed papers, exhibits, and the Gallery of Fluid Motion.The invited lectures are selected to illustrate the richnessof topics, techniques and applications inherent in the studyof fluid dynamics. More than 950 contributed abstracts,divided into 14 concurrent sessions, are anticipated.

AWARD PROGRAM

Each year the APS Division of Fluid Dynamicspresents several awards: the Fluid Dynamics Prize, theFrancois Frenkiel Award, and the Andreas AcrivosDissertation Award. Winners of these awards will beannounced in the fall. A lecture by each award winner willbe given at the meeting.

INVITED LECTURES

Tom Daniel, University of WashingtonAeroelastic Coupling in Insect Flight?

Mory Gharib, CaltechThe Fluid Mechanics of Heart Failures

Edward Greitzer, MITTopics in Air-Breathing Propulsion

Ellen Longmire, University of MinnesotaPinch-off and Coalescence in Liquid-liquid mixtures

Julio Ottino, Northwestern UniversityDynamics of segregation, mixing, and coarseningof granular matter

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Peter Rhines, University of WashingtonGlobal Climate meets Dynamics in the FluidsLaboratory

Philippe Spalart, BoeingResearch Directions in Unsteady Aerodynamics

MINI-SYMPOSIA

Motion of Aquatic OrganismsMulti-Phase FlowsPacking of Colloidal ParticlesSurface Wave BreakingSupersonic Turbulence

AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT

For the first time an LCD projector and a computer willbe provided in each room for both invited andcontributed talks. In addition, in each session room therewill be an overhead projector, screen, laser pointer, andlapel microphone. More details on how to utilize this equip-ment will be provided in an email this summer, and on themeeting web-site.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIESSOCIAL ACTIVITIESSOCIAL ACTIVITIESSOCIAL ACTIVITIESSOCIAL ACTIVITIES

CONFERENCE RECEPTION

A highlight of the meeting will be the ConferenceReception on Sunday evening, November 21, 2004. TheReception will be held at the world famousMuseum of Flight. All paid attendees receive a ticket tothis event.

The Museum of Flight features 54 of the world’s mostawe-inspiring airplanes—authentic and in mint condition.In the steel and glass Great Gallery, the history of aviationsoars past, with dozens of full-size aircraft flying information six stories above. Sit in the cockpit of a realSR-71 Blackbird or F/A-18 Hornet. Step back 85 years inthe magnificently restored Red Barn®, birthplace of TheBoeing Company. Including hands-on kid's workshops, theMuseum of Flight offers something to every guest. Comeexperience the story of flight from the dawn of aviation tothe Space Age.

Website: www.museumofflight.org

DEADLINES

Abstract Submission…………………6 August 2004

SUBSEQUENT DFD MEETINGS

2005, Chicago, IL. Contact: Richard Lueptow, Northwest-ern University

2006, tentatively planned to be held at a site in Florida

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 56TH

ANNUAL MEETING, NYC/NEW JERSEY

(BY MARK GLAUSER, CHAIR)

The November 2003 DFD meeting in NYC/NewJersey concluded with more than 1325 registrants, 1150contributed and invited lectures, 56 poster and 26 videosubmissions to the Gallery of Fluid Motion, and 14 exhibi-tors. The meeting events began early Sunday morning withthe opening sessions of the technical program. The Awardsceremony took place in the afternoon. The 2003 FluidDynamics Prize recipient was Dr. Jerry Gollub of HaverfordCollege, who presented his lecture entitled “NonlinearDynamics of Fluid Motion.’’ The 2003 Otto LaPorte Awardrecipient was Dr. Norman J. Zabusky from Rutgers Univer-sity who presented his lecture entitled “Visionmetrics: FromSolitions to Vortex Projectiles—Art and Science of FluidMotions.’’ The 2003 Francois Frenkiel Award was presentedto Dr Maxime Nicolas of Ecole Polytechnique in MarseilleFrance. The 2003 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation waspresented to Prosenjit Bagchi who did his doctoral thesiswork at UIUC. Meeting activities on Sunday were toppedoff with the Sunday evening reception which was held atNew York City’s most celebrated restaurant, the worldfamous Tavern on the Green, which is located in CentralPark. This was a wonderful evening and the weather forlate November was splendid! The meeting also includedoutstanding invited lectures by William K. George, PhilipA. Blythe, Sheldon Weinbaum, Robert Moser, William Saric,Lance Collins, Lars Bildsten and Erich E. Kunhardt.

We continued the very successful Graduate StudentLuncheon (initiated by Peter Raad at the 55th AnnualMeeting) to give our students the opportunity to partici-pate in discussions with experts on topics of interest whileenjoying a complimentary box lunch. The 2003 APS/DFDGraduate Student luncheon was organized with two simul-taneous sessions on Monday 11/24/03 during lunch.Session 1 was entitled “Grantsmanship, Prospects forSecuring Funds from Federal Agencies: ONR, NSF & AROperspectives.” Mike Plesniak (NSF) and Ron Joslin (ONR)gave informal overviews of their respective programs andMark Glauser served as moderator for the discussion.Session 2 was entitled “Emerging areas of Research &

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Technology Commercialization - Inventions & TechnologyCommercialization” by Erich Kunhardt (Stevens Instituteof Technology). Volkan Otugan and Siva Thangam servedas moderators. About 110 students attended the sessions(60 in the first and 50 in the second). There was a consid-erable amount of discussion during and after the sessions.Informal feedback from the attendees after the sessionswas very positive and it seems desirable to continue withthis student luncheon in future years.

The 21st Annual Gallery of Fluid Motion included 56 posterand 26 video entries representing research from academia,government laboratories and private companies in theUnited States and foreign countries. This year’s entriesexhibited a wide and outstanding display of experimentaland numerical results that presented combined artisticbeauty and deep physical insight into a broad range ofphenomena in fluid mechanics. A panel of eight distin-guished experts in the fluid dynamics community servedas judges. Poster winners included: Running MagneticSpouts and Hedgehogs, José Bico, Thomas Blum,Maxime Jullian, Patrice Jenffer, Marc Fermigier and JoséEdouardo Weisfreid; Chaotic Mixing in 3D Flows, PauloE. Arratia, Mario M. Alvarez, Troy Shinbrot, and FernandoJ. Muzzio; Hydraulic Jumps with Broken Symmetry, J.Leblanc, J. Aristoff, A. Hosoi and J. Bush; Touchdown of

a Sphere, Thomas Leweke, Mark. C. Thompson and KerryHourigan; Bubble Dynamics at Boundaries atMicrosecond Time Scales, Robert Schueler, KevinCissner, and Roger Becker ; Chaotic Mixing inViscous Fluids, Mario Alvarez, Troy Shinbrot and FernandoMuzzio; Taylor-Saffman Instability in a Hele-Shaw Cell,Marilyn Poon, Robert Neilson, Dustin Grace, Jessica Toddand Jean Hertzberg. Video winners included: Evolution ofQuasi-Streamwise Vortex Tubes and Wall Streaks in aBubble-Laden Turbulent Boundary Layer over a FlatPlate, Antonino Ferrante, Said Elghobashi, Paul Adams,Miguel Valenciano and David Longmire; VorticalInterface Between Immiscible Fluids, W. Alexandra, S.Roland and A. Shen; Bubble Dynamics UnderVertical Vibrations, Farzam Zoueshtiagh, Marc Legendre,Nicolas Vandewalle, Hervé Caps; Falling Snow & LavaPlumes: Drainage Patterns in Soap Films, S. Berg, E.A.Adelizzi and S.M. Troian. The winning entries will bepublished in a Gallery of Fluid Motion article in theSeptember 2004 issue of Physics of Fluids, and were alsodisplayed at the March meeting in Montreal.

The local organizing committee at SyracuseUniversity, RPI, Stevens, CCNY and Polytechnic thanksthe par ticipants for their contributions to a verysuccessful meeting.

Gerard M. Faeth, University of MichiganFor contributions to understanding the dynamics of

liquid breakup in sprays, the properties of self-preservingturbulent flows and the mechanism of turbulence generationin dispersed multiphase flows.

Francis H. Harlow , Los Alamos National LaboratoryFor his contributions to our understanding of low-speed,

free-surface, and turbulent flow through computationalmodeling, and his invention of completely original methodsto address these issues.

E. John Hinch, University of CambridgeFor many contributions to complex fluids, including novel

ideas and physical insight combined with asymptotic andnumerical studies, which have illuminated suspensionmechanics, viscous, multiphase and viscoelastic flows, andelectrokinetics.

2003 DFD FELLOWS

Fellows are elected based on nominations considered by theDFD Fellowship Committee, review by the APS FellowshipCommittee, and approval by the APS Council. Only 0.5 % ofthe APS membership is selected for Fellowship in theSociety each year.

Eberhard Bodenschatz, Cornell UniversityFor illuminating experiments on Rayleigh-Bénard

convection and directional solidification, for ground breakingmeasurements of acceleration in fully developedturbulence, and for significant contributions to understandingelectro-convection in liquid crystals.

Morton M. Denn, The City College of the City University ofNew York

For outstanding contributions to non-Newtonian fluidmechanics and polymer rheology, especially hispioneering studies on the stability of viscoelastic flow andthe causes and effects of wall slip.

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Paul F. Linden, University of California, San DiegoFor fundamental contributions to geophysical and envi-

ronmental fluid dynamics, gained by a combination ofelegant laboratory experiments, deep physical insight, andpenetrating mathematical analysis.

H. Keith Moffatt, Cambridge UniversityFor lasting contributions to the interaction between

turbulence and electromagnetic fields in conductingfluids, the role of helicity in hydrodynamic turbulence andtopological fluid dynamics.

Helen L. Reed, Arizona State UniversityFor her innovative research in boundary-layer stability and

receptivity, and her leadership in promoting and communi-cating fluid dynamics.

Howard A. Stone, Harvard UniversityFor pioneering work on the dynamics of complex

fluids in small-scale systems.

Charles H.K. Williamson, Cornell UniversityFor imaginative, innovative experiments that haveinjected new life into the study of wake dynamicsbehind bluff bodies and of trailing vortices.

After much discussion over many years the DFDExecutive Committee voted to make a change in thehandling of the Fluid Dynamics Prize and the OttoLaporte Award:

At its meeting in November 2003, the DFD ExecutiveCommittee considered and approved a recommendationof a distinguished Ad Hoc Committee that the Divisionshould have only one annual major Award/Prize to recog-nize outstanding scientific achievement in our field: theFluid Dynamics Prize.

The rationale provided by the Ad Hoc committee whenrecommending this change was that the DFD communityis of a size which is about right for one prize and too smallfor two. This change will elevate the stature of the FluidDynamics Prize to be more nearly equal to that of themajor APS Prizes, such as the Buckley Prize and theOnsager Prize.

The Executive Committee also decided that themonetary value of the Fluid Dynamics Prize should beincreased to $10,000, in keeping with major prizes of otherAPS divisions and the recommendation of the APSCouncil. The Executive Committee considered thesechanges carefully, and concluded that they will contributeto the health of the DFD over the long run.

The Fluid Dynamics Prize and the second award of theDFD, the Otto Laporte Award, will be combined into oneaward - the Fluid Dynamics Prize - for 2004 and thereafter.

The endowment of the Otto Laporte Award will becombined with the existing endowment of the FluidDynamics Prize to fund the larger amount of the award. Inthe description of how the Prize is supported financially, itwill be noted that support comes from friends of OttoLaporte together with support from the Division of FluidDynamics and the American Institute of Physics journal,Physics of Fluids. Past recipients of the Otto LaporteAward will continue to be listed on the APS web site.

Nominations for the Otto Laporte Award that have beenheld over from last year will be included this year ascandidates for the Fluid Dynamics Prize.

UPCOMING CONFERENCES:

ScArt4: 4th International Symposium in Science andArt. To be held in June 2005 at Rutgers University (NewBrunswick/Piscataway, NJ, USA). This four-day meeting(to be held for the first time in the USA) will look at theconnections between art and science, focusing on fluids,large molecules, flows, waves and diffusive processes (in-cluding geophysical, astrophysical and biological). Talks,posters, exhibitions will be made by visual artists, scien-tists-and-engineers, and historians. Currently scheduledartistic participants include Donna Cox, Ned Kahn, JuneWayne and Peter Galison. For more information see http://mechanical.rutgers.edu/scart4/. Specific dates will soonbe announced. To be on our email list contact ProsenjitBagchi at [email protected]

DFD NOTES

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The Fluid Dynamics Prize was established in 1979“ to recognize and encourage outs tandingachievement in fluid dynamics research.” It isendowed by Physics of Fluids and the Division ofFluid Dynamics.

Jerry P. GollubHaverford College and the University ofPennsylvaniaCitation: “For his elucidation of chaos, instabilities,mixing and pattern formation in various contextsincluding fluid convection, and his contributions toour understanding of surface waves, film andgranular flows, through his clever experiments,lucid papers and lively lectures.”

2003 O2003 O2003 O2003 O2003 OTTOTTOTTOTTOTTO L L L L LAPORTEAPORTEAPORTEAPORTEAPORTE A A A A AWARDWARDWARDWARDWARD

This award, established in 1985, is given “to recog-nize outstanding research accompl ishmentspertaining to the physics of fluids”, and was namedto honor Otto Laporte. It is endowed by the Friendsof Otto Laporte and the Division of Fluid Dynamics.

Norman J. ZabuskyRutgers UniversityCitation: “For pioneering and enduring contributionsin nonlinear and vortex physics and computationalfluid dynamics, including: the soliton; contourdynamics and V-states for 2D flows; vortex projec-tiles for accelerated inhomogeneous flows; andvisiometrics for reduced modeling.”

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This award, established in 1998, provides recogni-tion to exceptional young scientists who have per-

formed original doctoral thesis work of outstandingscientific quality and achievement in the area offluid dynamics.” The award honors the contributionsto fluid mechanics of Andreas Acrivos, particularlyhis distinguished editorship of Physics of Fluids. Itis suppor ted by donations from members andfriends of the Division of Fluid Dynamics.

Prosenjit BagchiUniversity of Illinois at Urbana Champaign(Advisor: S. Balachandar)Dissertation Title: “Particle dynamics in inhomoge-neous flows at moderate to high Reynolds number”

Citation: “For his careful and extensive numericalexperiments elucidating the fundamental mecha-nisms governing the motion of a spherical particlesubject to complex unsteady and inhomogeneousflows at moderate to high Reynolds number.”

2003 F2003 F2003 F2003 F2003 FRENKIELRENKIELRENKIELRENKIELRENKIEL A A A A AWARDWARDWARDWARDWARD

This Award recognizes significant contributions tofluid mechanics that have been published inPhysics of Fluids during the preceding year byyoung investigators.

Maxime NicolasIUSTI, Marseille, France“Experimental study of gravity-driven dense suspen-sion jets,” Physics of Fluids,14, pp. 3570-3576 (2003).

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For information about the nomination process andrequirements, please see the announcements postedat www.aps.org.

Prizes & Awards

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Personal Notes Regarding

DFD Members

A fluid dynamics classic has been reissued! DoverPublications have issued as a paperback a classic textby H. Liepmann and A. Roshko. In the Dover edition,corrections have been made to misprints and errors in the original Wiley edition. The details are as follows:

Elements of Gasdynamics by H. W. Liepmann and A.Roshko, Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, 2001.List price $24.95. (Available from Amazon)

William C. Meecham, UCLA professor of mechani-cal and aerospace engineering and an outspokenauthority on the effects of airport noise, died March 112003 from heart failure. He was 77.

Meecham earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in 1948and his Ph.D. in mathematical physics in 1954, all fromthe University of Michigan, where he also served as anassistant professor, and joined the faculty at UCLA’sengineering school in 1967. He was a respectedresearcher and teacher, according to colleagues. He wasan expert on the effects of jet noise on mortality rates,mental hospital admissions and other adverse commu-nity health effects and was a consultant for dozens ofcompanies and government agencies.

A 1982 investigation by Meecham found a higher rateof cardiovascular deaths, strokes, suicides and murderamong 200,000 people who lived in a flight-path corridornear Los Angeles International Airport, compared withthose living in other areas of the city. He attributed thisdifference partly to the effects of prolonged exposure toloud noise. Partly due to Meecham’s efforts, the schoolsbeneath the flight path were moved.

William Craig Reynolds, professor emeritus ofmechanical engineering at Stanford University died of amalignant brain tumor January 3 in his Los Altos home.He was 70. He was affiliated with Stanford for 53 years(he completed his bachelor’s (1954), master’s (1955) and

doctoral (1957) degrees at Stanford, after which he joinedthe faculty) and his time there was marked by relent-less innovation and a contagious zeal for teaching.

Reynolds was an expert in turbulence modeling andcontrol and he brought esoteric concepts to life in theclassroom. Reynolds’ textbooks, Thermodynamics andEngineering Thermodynamics (co-author is H.C. Perkins),and his chemical equilibrium analysis software,STANJAN, are used in engineering education and re-search worldwide. Reynolds won teaching awards fromthe American Society of Engineering Education and theTau Beta Pi engineering honor society, and his dramaticstyle lives on through those he inspired.

Reynolds helped found and manage the Center forTurbulence Research, a joint research consortiumbetween NASA and Stanford. He also spearheaded theestablishment of the Institute for Energy Studies andthe Department of Energy’s Center for IntegratedTurbulence Simulations. As an indication of hispractical abilities, Reynolds designed and installed theair-conditioning system for the Center for TurbulenceResearch and wrote an early computer program used bythe Department of Mechanical Engineering to sortgraduate student applications. He also designed and builthis Los Altos home and re-engineered it after the 1989Loma Prieta earthquake.

Reynolds was a pioneer in the development of turbu-lent flow control strategies that can help improve enginefuel efficiency and reduce the aerodynamic drag on carsand commercial airplanes. He was elected to theNational Academy of Engineering and the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences, and was a Fellow ofthe American Society of Mechanical Engineers and ofthe American Physical Society.

Please send additional Notes to Howard Stone([email protected]) for the Fall Newsletter.

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APS/DFD 2004 Leadership & Contact Info.

DFD members are invited tocontact the DFD Leader-ship with suggestions andconcerns.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEJames M. Wallace

(Chair, 11/04)Jerry P. Gollub

(Chair-Elect, 11/04)Howard A. Stone

(Vice-Chair, 11/04)Fazle Hussain

(Past Chair, 11/04)James Duncan

(Secretary/Treasurer, 11/06)Harry L. Swinney

(Divisional Councilor, 12/06)John Kim

(ex officio, Editor ofPhys. Fluids)

Gary Leal(ex officio, Editor ofPhys. Fluids)

Michael Brenner,(ex officio, Editor ofPhys. Rev. E)

Paul F. Linden (11/04)Timothy Wei (11/04)Robert P. Behringer (11/05)Ellen K. Longmire (11/05)John Foss (11/06)Gretar Tryggvason (11/06)

NOMINATING COMMITTEELex Smits

(Chair, 11/04)Nadine Aubry

(Vice-chair, 11/05)

Bob Ecke (11/05)(APS appointee)

Bill Schultz (11/05)Mary Silber (11/04)Emil Hopfinger (11/04)Tom Corke (11/04)

PUBLICATIONSCOMMITTEEPeter Carpenter

(Chair, 11/04)Ugo Piomelli

(Vice-Chair, 11/05)Werner Dahm (11/05)Jim Duncan (11/06)Gareth McKinley (11/05)Gretar Tryggvason (11/06)Emmanuel Villermaux (11/05)

PROGRAM COMMITTEEJerry Gollub (Chair) (11/04)Bob Behringer (11/04)Eberhard Bodenschatz (11/04)Julian Hunt (11/04)Ivan Marusic (11/05)Sandra Troian (11/05)Zellman Warhaft (11/05)

2003 FELLOWSHIPCOMMITTEEHoward Stone

(Chair) (11/04)E. B. Dussan (11/04)Bud Homsy (11/05)Tim Pedley (11/04)Helen Reed (11/05)Hermann Riecke (11/05)Israel Wygnanski (11/04)

EXTERNAL AFFAIRSCOMMITTEEMohamed Gad-el-Hak

(Chair, 11/04)Elaine Oran

(Vice Chair) 11/05John Foss 11/06Javier Jimenez 11/04George Karniadakis 11/04Bhimsen Shivamoggi 11/04Stavros Tavoularis 11/05

SELECTION COMMITTEEFOR 2004 FLUIDDYNAMICS PRIZERon Panton

(Chair) 11/04Marvin Goldstein

(Vice Chair 11/05)Ann Karagozian (11/05)Jean-Marc Chomaz (11/04)Jim Grotberg (11/04)Keith Moffatt (11/04)Michael Plesniak (11/04)

SELECTION COMMITTEEFOR 2004 ACRIVOS AWARDSutanu Sarkar (Chair 11/04)Jim Brasseur

(Vice Chair) 11/05Ken Melville (11/05)John de Bruyn (11/04)Fernando Grinstein (11/04)Marc Perlin (11/05)Ellen Longmire (11/05)

FRENKIEL AWARDCharles Meneveau

(Chair, 11/04)

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Material to beconsidered for the

Fall Newslettershould be sent to

Howard [email protected]

Don Koch (Vice Chair, 11/05)Bob Moser (Assoc. Ed. of

Physics of Fluids) (11/05)H. Joe Fernando (11/04)D. V. Gaitonde (11/04)Detlef Lohse (11/04)Candace Wark (11/05)

DFD Website CoordinatorKen Kiger

DFD MembershipCoordinatorTimoth Wei