2 Jan 2012 - G K Batchelor Prize 2012 awarded to Professor Detlef Lohse

The G K Batchelor Prize for 2012 is awarded to Professor Detlef Lohse of the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, the Netherlands.

The prize is awarded once every four years by the Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Cambridge University Press) and the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM). The prize is called after George Batchelor (1920-2000), founding editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

Professor Lohse receives the prize for his outstanding research on a wide range of fundamental fluid mechanics, including bubble sonoluminescence, turbulent convection, multiphase flow and microfluid dynamics, and for technological applications. Using innovative laboratory experiments, coupled with theoretical and numerical calculations, Professor Lohse has made significant advances that have provided new understanding of the underlying physics of these many different flows.