The FDR Prize 

This award is presented to one of the outstanding papers published in “Fluid Dynamics Research” from January to December previous to the award year.  The editors and associate editors of Fluid Dynamics Research select a prize-winner.

2024
Yuki Yagi, Kazuki Yabushita and Hiroyoshi Suzuki. "An analytic solution of Navier–Stokes flow past a sphere in the region of intermediate Reynolds number", Fluid Dynamics Research, 55 (4), 045508 (2023).

2023
B K Shivamoggi, G J F van Heijst and L P J Kamp. "The Okubo-Weiss criterion in hydrodynamic flows: geometric aspects and further extension", Fluid Dynamics Research, 54 (1), 015505 (2022).

2022
Stephen Childress and Andrew D Gilbert. "Area waves on a slender vortex revisited", Fluid Dynamics Research, 53 (3), 035508 (2021).

2021
Shigeo Kida. “Steady flow in a rapidly rotating spheroid with weak precession: I”, Fluid Dynamics Research, 52 (1), 015513 (2020).

2020
Jiro Mizushima, Rei Matsuda, Naoto Yokoyama. “Dependence of instability to induce a bathtub vortex in a rectangular vessel on the aspect ratio of the horizontal cross section”, Fluid Dynamics Research, 51 (2), 025505 (2019).

2019
Jacob Wilroy, Redha A Wahidi, Amy Lang. “Effect of butterfly-scale-inspired surface patterning on the leading edge vortex growth”, Fluid Dynamics Research, 50 (4), 045505 (2018).

2018
Saikat Basu, Ali Yawar, Andres Concha, M M Bandi. “On angled bounce-off impact of a drop impinging on a flowing soap film”, Fluid Dynamics Research, 49 (6), 065509 (2017).

2017
Christopher J Keylock, Bharath Ganapathasubramani, Jason Monty, Nick Hutchins, Ivan Marusic. “The coupling between inner and outer scales in a zero pressure boundary layer evaluated using a Hölder exponent framework”, Fluid Dynamics Research, 48 (2), 021405 (2016).

2016
Michael Le Bars, Daniel Lecoanet, Stéphane Perrard1, Adolfo Ribeiro, Laetitia Rodet. “Experimental study of internal wave generation by convection in water”, Fluid Dynamics Research, 47 (4), 045502 (2015).

2015
Stefan Zammert and Bruno Eckhardt “Periodically bursting edge states in plane Poiseuille flow”, Fluid Dynamics Research, 46 (4), 041419 (2014).

2014
S. Koch, U. Harlander, C. Egbers, R. Hollerbach. “Inertial waves in a spherical shell induced by librations of the inner sphere: experimental and numerical results”, Fluid Dynamics Research, 45 (3), 035504 (2013).

2013
Michihisa Tsutahara. “The finite-difference lattice Boltzmann method and its application in computational aero-acoustics”, Fluid Dynamics Research, 44 (4), 045507 (2012).

2012
Naoaki Saito and Keiichi Ishioka. “Interaction between thermal convection and mean flow in a rotating system with a tilted axis”, Fluid Dynamics Research, 43 (6), 065503 (2011).

2011
Mikhail A Sokolovskiy and Xavier J Carton. “Baroclinic multipole formation from heton interaction”, Fluid Dynamics Research, 42 (4), 045501 (2010).

2010
Masaki Shimizu and Shigeo Kida. “A driving mechanism of a turbulent puff in pipe flow”, Fluid Dynamics Research, 41 (4), 045501 (2009).

2009
Adrian Constantin and Robin S Johnson. “Propagation of very long water waves, with vorticity, over variable depth, with applications to tsunamis”, Fluid Dynamics Research, 40 (3), 175-211 (2008).

2008
Rabindra Nath Mondal, Yoshito Kaga, Toru Hyakutake and Shinichiro Yanase. “Bifurcation diagram for two-dimensional steady flow and unsteady solutions in a curved square duct”, Fluid Dynamics Research, 39 (5), 413-446 (2007).