The “Corrsin-Kovasznay Outstanding Paper Award” recognizes a young JHU scholar who is lead author of a recent paper in fluid mechanics for the work’s excellence, originality and potential impact. The award honors two great Johns Hopkins fluid dynamicists, the late Professor Stanley Corrsin and the late Professor Leslie Kovasznay. A number of alumni and friends have come together and established a fund for this award.

To be eligible for nomination, the young scholar (1) must be a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins University, or has left the university no more than 2 years prior to the nomination, and (2) must be a lead author of a paper in fluid mechanics that, at the time of nomination, has already been published in a peer-reviewed, archival journal and describes work done while at Johns Hopkins University. The award, to be given out once a year, consists of $500 to the awardee. In most cases, the awardee will be invited to campus to give a seminar and will receive the award on that occasion. The award is administered by the Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics (CEAFM). A committee will receive and evaluate nominations each year, and select the awardee.

Nominations should be emailed to Charles Meneveau by January 15, 2024.

Nominations should include:

1. PDF copy of the published paper being nominated,
2. CV of the student/postdoc lead author, and
3. Paragraph written by the adviser highlighting the essential novelty and contributions of the paper (if appropriate, the paragraph may contain quotations from the referee reviews received for the paper in question), as well as the unique contributions of the nominated student/postdoc lead author to the paper.

After the selection, the awardee will be invited to present a CEAFM seminar and receive the award at a date scheduled towards the end of the Fall semester.

2023 Winner

To be announced

2022 Winner

Dr. Yinghe Qi for his paper: “Fragmentation in Turbulence by Small Eddies” Co-authored with Shiyong Tan, Noah Corbitt, Carl Urbanik, Ashwanth K. R. Salibindla, & Rui Ni and published in Nature Communications.

2021 Winner

Dr. Chang Liu for his paper: “Structured input–output analysis of transitional wall-bounded flows” co-authored with Dennice Gayme and published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

2020 Winner

Dr. Karthik Menon for his paper: “On the initiation and sustenance of flow-induced vibration of cylinders: insights from force partitioning” co-authored with Rajat Mittal and published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

2019 Winner

Dr. Carl Shapiro for his paper: “Modelling Yawed Wind Turbine Wakes: A Lifting Line Approach” co-authored with Dennice F. Gayme and Charles Meneveau and published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

2018 Winner

Dr. Chi Zhu for his paper: “Computational modelling and analysis of haemodynamics in a simple model of aortic stenosis” co-authored with Jung-Hee Seo and Rajat Mittal and published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

2017 Winner

Dr. Perry Johnson for his paper: “A closure for Lagrangian velocity gradient evolution in turbulence using recent-deformation mapping of initially Gaussian fields” co-authored with Charles Meneveau and published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

2016 Winner

Dr. Maylis Landeau for her paper: “Core Merging and Stratification Following Giant Impact” co-authored with Peter Olson, Renaud Deguen, & Benjamin Hirsh and published in Nature Geoscience.

2015 Winner

Dr. Richard J.A.M. Stevens for his paper: “Large-eddy simulation study of the logarithmic law for second- and higher-order moments in turbulent wall-bounded flow” co-authored with Michael Wilczek and Charles Meneveau and published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

2013 Winner

Dr. Sumedh R. Risbud for his paper: “Trajectory and distribution of suspended non-Brownian particles moving past a fixed spherical or cylindrical obstacle” co-authored with German Drazer and published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

2011 Winner

Dr. Jiarong Hong for his paper: “Near-wall turbulence statistics and flow structures over three-dimensional roughness in a turbulent channel flow” co-authored with Joseph Katz and Michael P. Schultz and published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.