2013 FSSIC Symposium

Professor Ivan Marusic (University of Melbourne, Australia) - Controlling the large-scale motions in a turbulent boundary layer

Ivan Marusic is a Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and received his PhD from the same institution in 1992. His research is primarily in experimental and theoretical studies of turbulence at high Reynolds numbers. From 1998-2006 he was on the faculty at the University of Minnesota, USA where he was a recipient of a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, and an NSF Career Award. He returned to Melbourne in 2007 as an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow. He presently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and the Journal of Hydraulic Research, on the Editorial board of Measurement Science and Technology, and as Chair of the Australian National Committee for Mechanical Sciences. He is the President of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Professor Alexander J. Smits (Princeton University, USA) - The swimming of manta rays

Dr. Smits is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton and Chair of his department. His research interests are centered on fundamental, experimental research in turbulence and fluid mechanics. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2004, Dr. Smits received the Fluid Dynamics Award of the AIAA. In 2007, he received the Fluids Engineering Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Pendray Aerospace Literature Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching from Princeton University. In 2009, Dr. Smits received the Médaille de la Ville de Marseille, La Ville de Marseille, France, in recognition of his scientific and cultural contributions to the city, and in 2011 he received a degree Honoris Causa (D.Eng.) from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Professor James B. Grotberg (University of Michigan, USA) – Multiphase flow in the lung

James B. Grotberg, PhD, MD, is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan where he is the Director of the NASA Bioscience and Engineering Institute. He was an undergraduate at Cornell University in Biology, received a PhD in Fluid Mechanics at Johns Hopkins University, and obtained an MD from the University of Chicago. He is a member of the select US National Committee on Biomechanics, a Fellow of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, an Inaugural Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society, and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The latter cited Dr. Grotberg as “the leading Biofluid Dynamicist in the United States and among the top two or three in the world.” Dr. Grotberg’s research focuses on biofluid dynamics related to the respiratory system. He is known for studying fundamental fluid mechanical phenomena that are motivated by, and directly apply to, medical practice, thereby making unique and fundamental contributions to both communities. During the course of his research and teaching he has given 95 keynote and invited lectures, published 130 refereed journal articles, 14 book chapters, and 260 proceedings and abstracts. He has accomplished this while mentoring 60 trainees, 26 of whom have gone on to become professors around the world. In addition, he has practiced Emergency and Critical Care Medicine as a physician and is active in his local community with minority youth groups.

Professor Robert Anthony Antonia (University of Newcastle, Australia) - A look at the turbulent wake using scale-by-scale energy budgets

Robert Antonia studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sydney, and was awarded his PhD in 1970. Following a post-doctoral year at Imperial College on a CSIRO fellowship, he joined the University of Sydney as a lecturer in Mechanical Engineering in 1972. He was appointed to the Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Newcastle in January 1976. During 2001-2005, he was ARC Professorial Fellow at the University of Newcastle. Since 2005, he has been Emeritus Professor at the University of Newcastle. In 2004, he was awarded a Citation Laureate for Engineering by the Publisher Thomson ISI and was elected to the Australian Academy of Science. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society and Chief International Academic Advisor for the Shenzhen Graduate School of the Harbin Institute of Technology.

Robert Antonia has made a number of contributions to turbulence research. Perhaps the most significant relate to the study of the response of a turbulent boundary layer to sudden changes in surface condition, the identification of large scale “organised” motions in a range of turbulent shear flows, including the atmospheric surface layer, and an improved understanding of small scale turbulence. His papers have received more than 9000 ISI citations with an h factor of 48.

Keynote Speeches

Professor Ethirajan Rathakrishnan (Indian Institute of Technology, India) - Triangular tabs for supersonic jet mixing enhancement

Ethirajan Rathakrishnan is Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He is well-known internationally for his research in the area of high-speed jets. The limit for the passive control of jets, called Rathakrishnan Limit, is his contribution to the field of jet research, and the concept of breathing blunt nose (BBN), which reduces the positive pressure at the nose and increases the low-pressure at the base simultaneously, is his contribution to drag reduction at hypersonic speeds. He has published a large number of research articles in many reputed international journals. He is Fellow of many professional societies, including the Royal Aeronautical Society. Professor Rathakrishnan serves as the Editor-In-Chief of the International Review of Aerospace Engineering (IREASE) journal. He has authored 10 books: Gas Dynamics, 4th ed. (PHI Learning, New Delhi, 2012); Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, 2nd ed. (PHI Learning, New Delhi 2005); Fluid Mechanics: An Introduction, 3rd ed. (PHI Learning, New Delhi 2012); Gas Tables, 2nd ed. (Universities Press, Hydrabad, India, 2004); Instrumentation, Measurements, and Experiments in Fluids (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, USA, 2007); Theory of Compressible Flows (Maruzen Co., Ltd. Tokyo, Japan, 2008); Gas Dynamics Work Book (Praise Worthy Prize, Napoli, Italy, 2010); Applied Gas Dynamics (John Wiley, New Jersey, USA, 2010); Elements of Heat Transfer, (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, USA, 2012) and Theoretical Aerodynamics (John Wiley, New Jersey, under publication).

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