Barkley, Dwight [2008]
University of Warwick
Citation: For combining computation and dynamical systems analyses to obtain remarkable insights into hydrodynamic instabilities and patterns in diverse systems, including flow past a cylinder, channel flow, laminar-turbulent bands, and thermal convection.

Basaran, Osman A. [2008]
Purdue University
Citation: For computational, theoretical, and experimental work on improving fundamental understanding of pinch-off singularities, drop formation, and electrohydrodynamics, and for development of nonstandard inkjet printing applications.

Childress, William S. [2008]
New York University
Citation: For pioneering contributions to dynamo theory, geophysical fluid dynamics and biological fluid mechanics including locomotion.

Domaradzki, Julian A. [2008]
University of Southern California
Citation: For insightful contributions to the development of subgrid-scale algorithms for computational fluid dynamics and for their use to illuminate the physics of the energy transfer between eddy scales in large eddy simulations of turbulent flow fields.

Guazzelli, Elisabeth [2008]
CNRS-Paris
Citation: For extensive and careful experiments revealing complex phenomena in mobile particulate systems.

Kailasanath, Kazhikathra [2008]
Naval Research Lab
Citation: For contributions to advanced computational techniques and basic understanding of the dynamics of chemically reactive flows and their application in design, analysis, and performance of propulsion concepts.

Koochesfahani, Manoochehr M. [2008]
Michigan State University
Citation: For his pioneering contributions to the development of experimental techniques including laser induced fluorescence, molecular tagging velocimetry and thermometry, and quantum dot imaging, and for his fundamental studies of turbulent mixing.

Lister, John [2008]
University of Cambridge
Citation: Manifold contributions to the dynamics of free-surface flows, their singular structures, and applications to flows and transport processes relevant to the earth sciences.

Lueptow, Richard M. [2008]
Northwestern University
Citation: For careful experiments and simulations in a broad range of areas including granular flow, Taylor Couette flow, physical acoustics, turbulent flow, membrane filtration, and sprays as well as noteworthy service to the Division of Fluid Dynamics.

Malik, Mujeeb R. [2008]
NSAS/Langley Research Center
Citation: For pioneering contributions to the understanding of the breakdown of cross flow vortices in three-dimensional boundary layers, attachment-line and hypersonic boundary layer instability including real gas effects, and developing physics-based methods for the prediction of laminar-turbulent transition.

Orlandi, Paolo [2008]
University of Roma
Citation: For his contributions to the study of turbulence, vortex dynamics, and other areas of fluid mechanics, in particular through the application of low-order energy-conserving finite-difference numerical techniques.

Plesniak, Michael [2008]
Purdue University
Citation: For fundamental contributions to understanding complex turbulent shear flows including the effects of curvature, multiple strain rates, three-dimensional boundary layers, and non-canonical jets in crossflow.

Smith, Leslie M. [2008]
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Citation: For important and insightful contributions to the understanding of turbulence in engineering and geophysical flows through theory and numerical simulations.

Squires, Kyle [2008]
Arizona State University
Citation: For his role in discovering the mechanisms creating concentration fluctuations of inertial particles in turbulent flow, and for fundamental contributions to the computational modeling of wall turbulence in complex geometries.

Yakhot, Victor [2008]
Boston University
Citation: For seminal contributions to turbulence and combustion modeling.