2023.12.20 Charles Meneveau wins the Batchelor Prize 2024
The G K Batchelor Prize for 2024 has been awarded to Professor Charles Meneveau, Louis M. Sardella Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA. The award and Batchelor prize lecture will take place in August 2024 at the International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM) in Daegu, South Korea.
The international panel of experts considered many strong nominations from a diverse field. Professor Meneveau receives the prize for his high-impact fundamental contributions to the study of turbulence and wall-bounded flows, and for bringing insightful and rigorous fluid mechanics to the science of wind turbines and wind farms for the benefit of society.
Professor Meneveau expressed his delight in being awarded the prize:
‘Receiving the Batchelor-named prize from our community is profoundly meaningful for me, my students, postdocs, and collaborators. George Batchelor's enduring legacy in this field grows more influential each day, especially as fluid mechanics becomes increasingly vital, notably in shaping strategies for sustaining civilization on our Fluid Earth. I am thankful to Cambridge University Press for establishing this prize and look forward to participating in ICTAM 2024.’
Professor Meneveau will present his prize lecture at 11am, Wednesday 28 August at ICTAM 2024: https://www.ictam2024.org/index.php?GP=pro/pro01
Congratulations to Professor Meneveau from the G K Batchelor Prize Scientific Committee and the team at Cambridge University Press & Assessment!
The Batchelor Prize, founded and sponsored by the Journal of Fluid Mechanics (awarded under the auspices of IUTAM) is presented once every four years at the International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM), the next occasion being in Daegu, Korea in August 2024. The prize winner will be announced late in 2023.
Nominations for the 2024 Batchelor Prize are now closed.
Deadline for nominations was May 31 2023. The announcement of the winner will be made at the end of 2023.
The Prize of $25,000 is awarded every four years to a single scientist for outstanding research in fluid dynamics, recognizing research which has been published during the ten-year period prior to the announcement of the award. The intention is that younger researchers should be as eligible for consideration as those who are more established, and that the work should be of great current interest (representing, for example, an emerging field of application of fluid mechanics or a significant breakthrough in an established branch of the subject).
The Prize winner will be determined by a small committee whose members are internationally distinguished in fluid mechanics.
It is expected that the Prize winner will deliver a lecture at International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM) and that this lecture will be published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and be made freely available on the Cambridge Core website.
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How nominations for the Batchelor Prize work
The nomination process is open to everyone, and nominations should be made via email to JFMprize@cambridge.org. If you would like someone to be considered for the Batchelor Prize please nominate them using the procedure outlined below:
- The nomination should include a brief curriculum vitae of the candidate nominated.
- A list of their publications during the period 2013-2022; with up to 10 of particular distinction being marked by an asterisk (there is no requirement that the research was published in the
- A brief (one or two page) statement of the case for making the award, including reasoning for the selected papers of distinction. A joint signed statement is acceptable and further supporting letters are not required.
Conditions concerning the award of the Batchelor Prize:
- Self-nominations will NOT be accepted.
- All nominations must be in English.
- The decision of the Committee shall be final. Previous winners are not eligible.
Winners of the Batchelor Prize:
2020 Alexander J. Smits
2016 Raymond E. Goldstein
2012 Detlef Lohse
2008 Howard Stone