Charles Meneveau wins the Batchelor Prize 2024

The G K Batchelor Prize for 2024 is awarded to Professor Charles Meneveau, Louis M. Sardella Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University.

The prize was awarded after an international panel of experts considered many strong nominations from a diverse field. This prestigious prize, sponsored by the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, is awarded every 4 years at the International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM) to recognise the achievements of an active scientist who has made significant research contributions to fluid mechanics over the previous decade.

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.

Commenting on his win, Professor Meneveau said:

“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 has received numerous honours and awards. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a foreign corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Academy of Mechanics. He also serves the fluid mechanics community through membership of the Editorial Boards of several top journals, including being Deputy Editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Turbulence (until 2015) and through driving the development of the JHU Turbulence Database, an open-sourced digital platform that facilitates the democratization of large amounts of high-fidelity simulation data.

Professor Meneveau will give his prize lecture during the International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Daegu, South Korea.

We would like to congratulate Professor Meneveau on this much-deserved distinction, and we invite you to enjoy free access to a collection of his papers in Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

Key articles showcasing Professor Meneveau’s research over the past 10 years this prize has been awarded for are listed below:

P. Clark Di Leoni, T. Zaki, G.E. Karniadakis & C. Meneveau, "Two-point stress-strain rate correlation structure and non-local eddy viscosity in turbulent flows" (2021), J. Fluid Mech. 914, A6.

P. Veers, Dykes, K., Lantz, E., Barth, S., Bottasso, C.L., Carlson, O., Clifton, A., Green, J., Green, P., Holttinen, H., Laird, D., Meneveau, C. et al., "Grand challenges in the science of wind energy" (2019). Science 366, 443.

C. Shapiro, D.F. Gayme & C. Meneveau, "Modelling yawed wind turbine wakes: a lifting line approach" (2018), J. Fluid Mech. 841, R1, 1-12.

R.J.A.M. Stevens & C. Meneveau, "Flow structure and turbulence in wind farms" (2017), Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 49, 311-339.

R.J.A.M. Stevens, B.F. Hobbs, A. Ramos & C. Meneveau, "Combining economic and fluid dynamic models to determine the optimal spacing in very large wind farms" (2016), Wind Energy 20, 465-477.

M.F. Howland, J. Bossuyt, L.A. Martínez-Tossas, J. Meyers & C. Meneveau, "Wake Structure of Wind Turbines in Yaw under Uniform Inflow Conditions" (2016), J. Renew. Sustain. Energy 8, 043301.

J. Graham, K. Kanov, X.I.A. Yang, M. K.Lee, N. Malaya, C.C. Lalescu, R. Burns, G. Eyink, A. Szalay, R.D. Moser, and C. Meneveau, "A Web Services-accessible database of turbulent channel flow and its use for testing a new integral wall model for LES" (2015), Journal of Turbulence 17:2, 181-215.

C.M. de Silva, I. Marusic, J. D. Woodcock & C. Meneveau, "Scaling of second- and highorder structure functions in turbulent boundary layers" (2015), J. Fluid Mech. 769, 654-686.

R.J.A.M. Stevens, M. Wilczek & C. Meneveau, "Large-eddy simulation study of the logarithmic law for second and higher-order moments in turbulent wall-bounded flow" (2014), J. Fluid Mech. 757, 888-907.

C Meneveau & I. Marusic, "Generalized logarithmic law for high-order moments in turbulent boundary layers" (2013), J. Fluid Mech. 719, R1.