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Richard Bruce Chapman Memorial Award

The Richard B. Chapman Memorial Award is given to an EAS graduate student in hydrodynamics who has distinguished themself in research.

2023

Nathaniel Wei
Thesis: Dynamics and Performance of Wind-Energy Systems in Unsteady Flow Conditions
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