Outstanding Paper Award 

This award is presented to the author or authors of outstanding papers on Fluid Mechanics published within 10 years from the end of the award year.

2024
No award granted

2023
S. Taguchi and T. Tsuji, Inversion of the transverse force on a spinning sphere moving in a rarefied gas, J. Fluid Mech.
933, A37(1-51) (2022).

2022
Y. Kuya. Tohoku University
K. Totani. Tohoku University
S. Kawai. Tohoku University
[Paper] Y. Kuya, K. Totani, S. Kawai, Kinetic energy and entropy preserving schemes for compressible flows by split convective forms, [J. Comput. Phys. 375 (2018) 823–853]

2021
Makoto Sato, Kogakuin University
Koichi Okada, Siemens PLM Software Computational Dynamics K.K.
Kengo Asada, Tokyo University of Science
Hikaru Aono, Shinshu University
Taku Nonomura, Tohoku University
Kozo Fujii, Tokyo University of Science
[Paper]Makoto Sato, Koichi Okada, Kengo Asada, Hikaru Aono, Taku Nonomura, Kozo Fujii， Unified mechanisms for separation control around airfoil using plasma actuator with burst actuation over Reynolds number range of 10³–10⁶, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 32, 025102 (2020)

2020
Ryuta X. SUZUKI, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Yuichiro NAGATA, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Manoranjan MISHRA, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
Takahiko BAN, Osaka University
[Paper] Ryuta X. Suzuki, Yuichiro Nagatsu, Manoranjan Mishra and Takahiko Ban. "Phase separation effects on a partially miscible viscous fingering dynamics", Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2020), 898, A11

2019
No Award

2018
No Award

2017
No Award

2016
No Award

2015
No Award

2014
No Award

2013
Shigeo KIDA, Doshisha University
[Paper] S. Kida: “Steady flow in a rapidly rotating sphere with weak precession”,Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 680, pp.150 – 193 (2011).

Kenta ISHIMOTO, Kyoto University
Michio YAMADA, Kyoto University
[Paper] K. Ishimoto and M. Yamada: “A coordinate based proof of the scallop theorem”, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 72, No.5, pp.1686 – 1694 (2012).

2012
Koji FUKAGATA, Keio University
Kaoru IWAMOTO, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Nobuhide KASAGI, Japan Agency for Science and Technology
[Paper] Koji Fukagata, Kaoru Iwamoto and Nobuhide Kasagi, “Contribution of Reynolds stress distribution to the skin friction in wall-bounded flows”, Physics of Fluids, Vol.14, L73-L76, (2002).

2011
Yukio KANEDA, Nagoya University
Takashi ISHIHARA, Nagoya University
Mitsuo YOKOKAWA, RIKEN
Ken'ichi ITAKURA, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Atsuya UNO, RIKEN
Y. Kaneda, T. Ichihara, M. Yokokawa, K. Itakura and A. Uno. "Energy dissipation rate and energy spectrum in high resolution direct numerical simulations of turbulence in a periodic box", Physics of Fluids. Vol. 15, L21-L24 (2003).

2010
No Award

2009
No Award

2008
Yohei MORINISHI, Nagoya Institute of Technology
Y. Morinishi, T. S. Lund, O. V. Vasilyev and P. Moin. "Fully Conservative Higher Order Finite Difference Schemes for Incompressible Flow", Journal of Comput. Physics. Vol.143, 90-124 (1998).

2007
Ryoichi KUROSE, Kyoto University
Satoru KOMORI, Kyoto University
Ryoichi Kurose & Satoru Komori. “Drag and lift forces on a rotating sphere in a linear shear flow”, Journal of Fluid Mech., 384, 183-206 (1999).