Applied Fluid Mechanics: People

• Parviz Moin, 
• Professor of Stanford University, 
• Turbulence Modeling, http://web.stanford.edu/group/fpc/cgi-bin/fpcwiki/People/ParvizMoin
• Daniel D. Joseph, Professor, Regents and Russell J. Penrose Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, http://www.aem.umn.edu/people/faculty/joseph/
• Prof Detlef Lohse, Bubble dynamics, bubbly flow, micro-/nano-, link
• Giovanni P. Galdi, Leighton E. and Mary N. Orr Professor of Mechanical Engineering, maths in Navier-Stokes, http://www.engineering.pitt.edu/ProfessionalProfile.aspx?id=2147485474
• Prof. Dudley Brian Spalding, Heat Transfer, Imperial College, (influential person in developing CFD) founder of Concentration Heat And Momentum Limited (CHAM) company.
• Prof. Chiang C. Mei, Donald and Martha Harleman Professor and Acting Head of Department, MIT, http://web.mit.edu/ccmei/www/
• Tayfun E. Tezduyar, James F. Barbour Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, https://memsweb.rice.edu/tezduyar/
• Francis Harvey Harlow, theoretical physicist, fluid dynamics, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Prof. Gretar Tryggvason, Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, http://www3.nd.edu/~gtryggva/
• Prof. Samuel Paolucci, Professor, University of Notre Dame, Principal Investigator and Director, C-SWARM, http://www3.nd.edu/~paolucci/
• Prof. Charles S. Peskin, mathematical biology and fluid dynamics,  Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
• Prof. David J. Silvester, Professor of Mathematics, University of Manchester (IFISS toolbox Matlab for Fluid Dynamics), http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=-7jBp94AAAAJ&hl=en
• Prof. Gilbert Strang, Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, http://math.mit.edu/~gs/
• Prof. Herman Deconinck, Dean of the faculty, Vrije U. Brussel, Belgium (compressible/incompressible flow, inviscid compressible aerodynamics)
• Prof. Charles Hirsch, Em. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, President Numeca Int'l, Belgium
• Prof. Cengiz Camci, Aerospace Enginering, The Pennsylvania State University, http://www.personal.psu.edu/cxc11/
• Prof. Antony Jameson, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford University, http://aero-comlab.stanford.edu/jameson/
• Prof. Elias Balaras, LES, University of Maryland, USA
• Prof. Kyle Squires, RANS/DES, Arizona State University, U.S.A.
• Prof. Martin Sommerfeld, Dispersed Multi-phase, University Halle-Wittenberg, German
• Prof. Robert D. Moser, Chair in Computational Engineering & Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin (LES/DNS, turbulence). http://www.me.utexas.edu/directory/faculty/moser/robert/
• Prof. Charles R. Doering, of Physics, Mathematics, and Complex Systems Acting Director, Center for the Study of Complex Systems (2013-14), Departments of Mathematics and Physics, University of Michigan, https://www.lsa.umich.edu/physics/directory/faculty/ci.doeringcharles_ci.detail,  doering@umich.edu
•  Stephen Childress, Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, Co-Director, Applied Mathematics Laboratory, New York Uni., http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/childres/
• Prof. Andrew J. Majda, 
• Morse Professor of Arts and Science, New York University, Vorticity Book, 
Link
• Professor Kenneth Morgan, Computational fluid dynamics, computational electromagnetics, mesh generation and adaptivity, wave propagation, K.Morgan@swansea.ac.uk, Link
• Prof.  Wolfgang A. Wall, Institute for Computational Mechanics, Technical University Munich
• Dr Volker Gravemeier, Institute for Computational Mechanics, Technical University Munich
• Prof.  Jonathan B. Freund, Mechanical Science and Engineering Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Cellular Biomechanics, Molecular Dynamics, Spectral Methods). http://jbfreund.mechse.illinois.edu/
• Prof. Michael Griebel, Uni. Bonn, NaSt soft http://wissrech.ins.uni-bonn.de/people/griebel.html
• Kazuo KASHIYAMA, Chuo Uni. (shallow-water flow, FEM)
• Genick bar-meir, Potto project, free book and open source soft
• Dr. Thierry POINSOT, Research Director of Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Tel: +33.(0)5.34.32.28.93, E-mail: poinsot@imft.fr, http://www.cerfacs.fr/~poinsot/
• Prof Yong Kweon Suh, microfluidics, http://cfdlab.donga.ac.kr
• Prof. Michael Yianneskis, Emeritus Professor, King's College London, http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/engineering/people/atoz/yianneskis.aspx
• Prof BECKERS Jean-Marie, Liege, Physical and chemical oceanography
• Prof. Shu Chang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, (Lattice Boltzmann, Immersed Boundary, Differential Quadrature), mpeshuc@nus.edu.sg, http://serve.me.nus.edu.sg/shuchang/
• Assoc Prof. Mike Sukop, Department of Earth and Environment Florida International University, sukopm@fiu.edu, (Lattice Boltzmann code, LB2D_Prim ) http://www2.fiu.edu/~sukopm/
• Paul J. Atzberger, Stochastic, http://www.math.ucsb.edu/~atzberg/pmwiki_intranet/index.php?n=AtzbergerHomePage.Homepage?setskin=atzbergerHomepage2
• Prof. Dmitri Kuzmin, (FEM for Computational Fluid Dynamics), University Erlangen-Nuremberg , www.mathematik.uni-dortmund.de/~kuzmin
• Prof. G.R. Liu, University of Cincinnati, (S-FEM, SPH, Aerodynamics) http://www.ase.uc.edu/~liugr/index.html
• Ass/Prof. Antonino Ferrante, Aeronautics & Astronautics, University of Washington, http://www.aa.washington.edu/faculty/ferrante/
• George Karniadakis, Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Research Scientist at MIT, http://www.cfm.brown.edu/people/gk/index.html
• Alexandre J. Chorin, Department of Mathematics, University of California, http://math.berkeley.edu/~chorin/
• Philipp Schlatter, Dr., KTH mechanics, http://www.mech.kth.se/mech/info_staff.jsp?ID=216
•  Dr Peter Vincent  Faculty of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics, link, page, free flow solver, www.pyfr.org
• Jerrold E. Marsden, professor of Control and Dynamical Systems at Caltech, http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~marsden/

• Prof. Nhan PHAN-THIEN, Professor in Mechanical Engineering, in Bioengineering, National University of Singapore, Rheology, Suspensions, BioRheology, Computational Mechanics, http://serve.me.nus.edu.sg/fluid/index_files/nhanphanthien.htm
• Professor T. Tran-Cong, PhD, RME Chair in Computational Engineering, Executive Director, Computational Engineering and Science Research Centre (CESRC), University of Southern Queensland, Tel: +61 7 4631-1332/-2539 Fax: +61 7 46312526, Email: thanh.tran-cong@usq.edu.au, Web: http://www.usq.edu.au/cesrc/
• Phan Anh Tuan, Head, Division of Physics & Applied Physics, (Bio-, fluid dynamics) http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/phantuan/index.htm

Ocean\ Marine

• Stephen M. Griffies, http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/bibliography/resultstest.php?author=1047

Heat transfer, thermodynamics

• Ephraim M. Sparrow, University of Minnesota, USA (750 papers)
• Adrian Bejan, Duke University, USA
• Beric Skews, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
• Satish G Kandlikar, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
• Antony Jacobi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Jungho Kim, University of Maryland, USA
• Liqiu Wang, University of Hong Kong
• AAM Delil, National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, Netherlands
• Detliv Kroger, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
• Kyoji Kamemoto, Yokohama National Universirt, Japan
• Dimos Poulikakos, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
• KN Seetharamu, USM Engineering, Malaysia
• Pega Hrnjak, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• John R Thome, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Afshin Ghajar, Oklahoma State University
• H Hayami, Kyushu University, Japan
• Leon Liebenberg, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• VK Dhir, University of California, USA
• Holger Martin, Karlsruhe University, Germany
• G Hetsroni, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• Y Tsujimoto, Osaka University, Japan
• P Nithiarasu, University of Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom
• AAM Delil, Advanced Aerospace Thermal Control Systems
• Yas Takata, Kyushu University, Japan
• Peter Vadasz, Northern Arizona University, USA
• AS Majumdar, National University of Singapore
• AT Prata, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
• IG Shekriladze, Georgian Technical University, Georgia
• Wen-Quan Tao, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
• Bartoli Carlo, University of Pisa, Italy
• John R Thome, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Adrian Bejan and Sylvie Lorente, Duke University, USA
• Adrian Briggs, University of London, United Kingdom
• VV Kulish, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• K Sefiane, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Peter Stehlik, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
• Zahid Ayub, Isotherm, Inc., USA
• Afshin Ghajar, Oklahoma State University, USA
• Thomas McKrell, MIT, USA
• Pradeep Bansal , University of Auckland, New Zeeland
• Ranganathan Kumar, University of Central Florida, USA
• Charles Ward, University of Toronto, Canada
• Oleg Kabov, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• Dongsheng Wen, Queen Mary University of London, UK
• John Thome, EPFL, Switzerland
• Qiuwang Wang , Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
• Michel de Paepe, Ghent University, Belgium
• Gordon Mallinson, The University of Auckland
• Pega Hrnjak, University of Illinois, USA
• Md. Mahbub Alam, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Avi Bar-Cohen, University of Maryland, USA
• Brian Spalding, CHAM, UK
• Tilak Chandratilleke, Curtin University, Australia
• John Chai, Petroleum Institute, UAE
• Tunde Bello-Ochende, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Remi Revellin, National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon, France

Atmosphere

• Emeritus Prof. Michael McIntyre, DAMTP, Cambridge, Link

Multiphisics

•  Associate Professor li hua, http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/lihua/

Turbulence

• Prof. Javier JIMENEZ, aeronautics universidad politecnica de madrid (turbulence). torroja.dmt.upm.es
• Jean-Pierre Chollet, jean-pierre.chollet@ujf-grenoble.fr 
• Prof. Dr. Leonhard Kleiser, ETH Zürich, Institute of Fluid Dynamics, kleiser@ifd.mavt.ethz.ch, http://www.ifd.mavt.ethz.ch/people/kleiser
• Professor Federico Toschi, chair of Computational Physics of Multi-scale Transport Phenomena, department of Physics, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, http://mtp.phys.tue.nl/toschi/
• Guido Boffetta, Dipartimento di Fisica Generale via Pietro Giuria 1, Torino - Italy, (Turbulence) http://personalpages.to.infn.it/~boffetta/
• Prof. Charles Meneveau, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, (Turbulence), http://www.me.jhu.edu/meneveau/
• Enrico Calzavarini, Mechanics Lab, Lille University, France, (Turbulence) http://lmlm6-62.univ-lille1.fr/lml/perso/calzavarini/Enrico_Calzavarini_Home/Enrico_Calzavarini.html
• Håkan Nilsson, Prof. Chalmers, OpenFOAM, http://www.tfd.chalmers.se/~hani/
• Christopher Rutland, LES, internal combustion engine http://directory.engr.wisc.edu/me/faculty/rutland_christopher
• Lars Davidson, Chalmers, LES, LES-RANS, http://www.chalmers.se/am/SV/forskning/forskningsavdelningar/stromningslara/personal/forskare/lars-davidson
• Dr Zhiyin Yang,, Reader in Automotive Systems (Engineering and Design), Thermo-Fluid Mechanics, Zhiyin.Yang@sussex.ac.uk, http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/283263
• Associate Professor Evatt Hawkes, turbulent reacting flows, https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/associate-professor-evatt-hawkes

Aerodynamics, 

• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr.-Ing. habil Andreas Dillmann, Head of Institute - Göttingen/Köln, German Aerospace Center, Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology Management, http://www.dlr.de/as/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-136/265_read-988/sortby-lastname/
• Ernst Heinrich Hirschel, Institute of Aerodynamics, Chair of Fluid Mechanics and Institute of Aerodynamics Aachen, http://www.aia.rwth-aachen.de/index.php?id=542&L=1&uid=
• Dr. Gecheng Zha, Professor, http://www6.miami.edu/acfdlab/
  

Hypersonic, supersonic, propulsion

• A/Prof Andrew Neely Deputy Head of School (Research), a.neely@adfa.edu.au, http://seit.unsw.adfa.edu.au/research/staff_detail.php?staff_id=1077

FEM in Fluid, FSI

• Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Rannacher, Rolf, Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of Heidelberg, http://numerik.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/
• Matthias Heil, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester, http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~mheil/
• Antonio Huerta, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Laboratori de Càlcul Numèric, http://www.lacan.upc.edu/huerta/

Automobile

•  Professor Manolis Gavaises, Professor Delphi Chair in Fluid Dynamics, http://www.city.ac.uk/people/academics/emmanouel-gavaises

Chemical

• Ronnie Andersson, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, http://www.chalmers.se/en/staff/Pages/ronnie-andersson.aspx

Multiphase Flows

• Nikolay Ivanov Kolev, PhD, DrSc, http://www.herzovision.de/kolev-nikolay/
• Martin R. Maxey, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Engineering, Brown University, http://www.cfm.brown.edu/people/maxey/home.html
• Berend van Wachem, Imperial College London
• Eberhard Baensch, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Prof. Dr. Oleg Iliev,  Fraunhofer ITWM, http://www.itwm.fraunhofer.de/en/departments/flow-and-material-simulation/employees/prof-dr-oleg-iliev.html
• Damir Juric, CNRS/LIMSI
• Stephane Popinet, CNRS/UPMC
• Mikhail Shashkov, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Shu Takagi, University of Toyko

Graphics

• Robert Bridson, Adjunct professor in the Imager and SCL labs, UBC Computer Science, http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/

• Prof. Odd M. Faltinsen (AMOS, Department of Marine Technology, NTNU, Norway)
• Prof. Frederick Stern (IHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, University of Iowa, USA)
• Prof. Philip L.-F. Liu (Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, USA)
• Prof. Charles-Henri Bruneau-Univ. of Bordeaux, France
• Prof. Jean-Jacques Chattot-UC Davis, USA
• Prof. Mohamed Hafez-UC Davis, USA
• Dr. Dochan Kwak-NASA, USA
• Prof. Nobuyuki Satofuka-Japan
• Prof. Hanxin. Zhang-China
• R. Abgrall (France)
• F. Alcrudo (Spain)
• C.H. Bruneau (France)
• P. Burda (Czech Republic)
• D. Caughey (USA)
• J.J. Chattot (France)
• P. Cinnella (France)
• H. Choi (Korea)
• H. Deconinck (Belgium)
• S.M. Deshpande(USA)
• X.G. Deng (China)
• E. Dick (Belgium)
• D. Drikakis (UK)
• J. Fan (China)
• Z. Fan (China)
• D.X. Fu (China)
• S. Fu (China)
• K. Fujii (Japan)
• F. Grasso (Italy)
• C. Groth (Canada)
• B. Gustafsson (Sweden)
• D. Haenel (Germany)
• M. Hafez (USA)
• C. Hasse (Germany)
• A. Jameson (USA)
• C. Kiris (USA)
• B. Koren (Netherlands)
• P.S. Kulkarni (India)
• A. Kuzmin (Russia)
• D. Kwak (USA)
• A. Lerat (France)
• Q. Li (China)
• X. Li(China)
• M.S. Liou (USA)
• N. Kevlahan (Canada)
• P. Le Quere (France)
• K. Morgan (UK)
• C. D. Munz (Germany)
• K. Nakahashi (Japan)
• Y. Nakamura (Japan)
• M. Napolitano (Italy)
• A. Pascau (Spain)
• J. Periaux (France)
• R. Rannacher (Germany)
• Y. Ren (China)
• P. L. Roe (USA)
• M. Rumpfkeil (Canada)
• V. Sankaran (USA)
• N. Satofuka (Japan)
• S. Sherwin (UK)
• Y. Shokin (Russia)
• K. Srinivas (Australia)
• R. Strawn (USA)
• M. Tabata (Japan)
• J. Thomas (USA)
• J. Van Der Vegt (Netherlands)
• M.R. Visbal (USA)
• J.P. Wang (China)
• Z.J.  Wang (USA)
• J.Y. Yang (Taiwan)
• J.Y. Yoo (Korea)
• X. Zhong (USA)
• D.W. Zingg (Canada)

Chinese

• Chau-Hsing Su, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown Uni., http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/facultypage.chs.html
• Prof. Hanxin Zhang, Chairman of Local Committee-China Aerodynamic research and Develop-ment Center (CARDC)
• Prof. Xiaogang Deng, Executive Chairman of Local Committee-National University of Defense Technology(NUDT)
• Prof. Joseph H.W. Lee (Chair Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
• Prof. Tao Jianhua (Dean, Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, China)
• Prof. Liao Shijun (School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
•      Prof. Zhaolin Fan, Executive Chairman of Local Committee-CARDC
•      Prof. Zhigong Tang-CARDC
•      Prof. Qing Shen-China Academy of Aerospace Technology
•      Prof. Jun Dong-AVIC Aerodynamic Research Institute
•      Prof. Jing Fan-Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
•      Prof. Song Fu-Tsinghua University
•      Prof. Jianping Wang-Peking University
•      Prof. Xiyun Lu-University of Science and Technology of China(USTC)
•      Prof. Hua Liu-Shanghai Jiao Tong University
•      Prof. Chao Yan-Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
•      Prof. Ning Zhao, Department of Aerodynamics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, (CFD, PDEs) zhaoam@nuaa.edu.cn, http://www.global-sci.org/aamm/people/NingZhao.htm
•      Prof. Zhenghong Gao-Northwestern Polytechnical University
•      Prof. Jisheng Luo-Tianjin University
•      Prof. Yuehong Qian-Shanghai University     
•      Prof. Kun Xu-The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
•      Prof. Zhaoyan Yang-National Taiwan University
•      Prof. Qingguo Meng-National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)
•      Prof. Gang Liu-CARDC
•      Prof. Handong Ma -China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics
•      Prof. Wen Bai-China Aeronautics Computing Technique Research Institute
•      Prof. Feng Zhao-China Ship Scientific Research Center
•      Prof. Xinliang Li-China Science Institute
•      Prof. Yuxin Ren-Tsinghua University
•      Prof. Xiaodong Li -Beijing university of Aeronautics and Astronautics
•      Prof. Laiping Zhang-CARDC
•      Prof. Qin Li-CARDC

• Klaus-Jürgen Bathe, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT (FEM, Solid, Fluid)

Heraclitus
Archimedes
Leonardo Da Vinci
Isaac Newton
Leonhard Euler
Bernoulli
Leibniz
Navier
Stokes
Ludwig Prandtl
Taylor
Reynolds
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Boussinesq
Maurice Marie Alfred Couette
Professor George Keith Batchelor (8 March 1920 - 30 March 2000) , homogeneous, turbulence, George K. Batchelor Prize for Fluid Dynamics, the most prestigious prize in fluid mechanics, link