Richard Bruce Chapman Memorial Award
The Richard B. Chapman Memorial Award is given to an EAS graduate student in hydrodynamics who has distinguished himself or herself in research.
2023
Nathaniel Wei
Thesis:
Advisor: John Dabiri
2022
Benedikt Barthel
Thesis: On the Variational Principles of Linear and Nonlinear Resolvent Analysis
Advisor: Beverley McKeon
2021
Simon Toedtli
Thesis: Control of Wall-Bounded Turbulence Through Closed-Loop Wall Transpiration
Advisor: Beverley McKeon
2020
Chengzhe Zhou
Thesis: Collection of Solved Nonlinear Problems for Remote Shaping and Patterning of Liquid Structures on Flat and Curved Substrates by Electric and Thermal Fields
Advisor: Sandra Troian
2019
David Huynh
Thesis: Spatio-Temporal Response of a Compliant-Wall, Turbulent Boundary Layer System to Dynamic Roughness Forcing
Advisor: Beverley J. McKeon
Xiaozhou Ruan
Thesis: Oceanic Bottom Boundary Layers and Abyssal Overturning Circulation
Advisor: Andrew Thompson
Luis Phillipe Tosi
Thesis: Fluid-Structure Instability in an Internal Flow Energy Harvester
Advisor: Tim Colonius
2018
Morgane Anne Marie Grivel
Thesis: On the Effect of Large-Scale Patterned Wettability on Contact Line Hydrodynamics
Advisor: Morteza Gharib
Kazuki Maeda
Thesis: Simulation, Experiments, and Modeling of Cloud Cavitation with Application to Burst Wave Lithotripsy
Advisor: Tim Colonius
Jason Schlup
Thesis: Numerical Investigations of Transport and Chemistry Modeling for Lean Premixed Hydrogen Combustion
Advisor: Guillaume Blanquart
2017
Chris Roh
Thesis: Hydrodynamics of Insects. Part 1. Jetting of the Dragonfly Larvae. Part 2. Honeybee at the Air-water Interface: Surfing with the Capillary Wave
Advisor: Morteza Gharib
2016
Jomela Meng
Thesis: Numerical Simulations of Droplet Aerobreakup
Advisor: Tim Colonius
Simon Lapointe
Thesis: Simulation of Premixed Hydrocarbon Flames at High Turbulence Intensities
Advisor: Guillaume Blanquart
2015
Vedran Coralic
Thesis: Simulation of Shock-Induced Bubble Collapse with Application to Vascular Injury in Shockwave Lithotripsy
Advisor: Tim Colonius
2013
Ian Jacobi
Thesis: Structure of the Turbulent Boundary Layer under Static and Dynamic Impulsive Roughness Perturbation
Advisor: Beverley McKeon
2012
Philipp Boettcher
Thesis: Thermal Ignition
Advisor: Joseph Shepherd
2011
Yue Yang
Thesis: Lagrangian and Vortex-Surface Fields in Turbulence
Advisor: Dale Pullin
2010
Kristjan Gudmundsson
Thesis: Instability Wave Models of Turbulent Jets from Round and Serrated Nozzles
Advisor: Tim Colonius
2009
Daniel Chung
Thesis: Numerical Simulation and Subgrid-scale Modeling of Mixing and Wall-bounded Turbulent Flows
Advisor: Dale Pullin
2008
Kunihiko Taira
Thesis: The Immersed Boundary Projection Method and its Application to Simulation and Control of Flows Around Low-aspect-ratio Wings
Advisor: Tim Colonius