Leen van Wijngaarden Prize
Leen van Wijngaarden Prize
The ‘Stichting The Leen van Wijngaarden Prize for Excellence in Fluid Mechanics’ has the objective to create a prize in honour of Professor Leen van Wijngaarden for his lifelong devotion to educating students and excellence/world leadership in Fluid Mechanics research.
The Prize is awarded every four years for the best contribution to Fluid Mechanics in The Netherlands for a researcher less than 40 years of age affiliated with one of the groups of the JM Burgerscentrum.
Winner of the Leen van Wijngaarden Prize 2023
Dr. ir. Sander Huisman
LvW Prize 2023 – Sander Huisman
Sander Huisman currently is an associate professor in the Physics of Fluids group at the University of Twente. He obtained his Master’s Degree in 2009 and his PhD degree in 2014, both Cum Laude, under supervision of profs Chao Sun and Detlef Lohse. With his PhD thesis “Taylor-Couette Turbulence” he obtained the Hoogendoorn KIVI Award 2015 for the best fluid mechanics thesis. He is interested in the mass, momentum, heat, and energy transfer in turbulent flows with or without inclusions (bubbles, particles, and drops) in a variety of geometries: Rayleigh–Bénard, Taylor–Couette, von Kármán, channel, pipe flows, jet flow, shear flow, and homogeneous isotropic turbulence. He is now focusing on turbulent flow with bubbles, particles, and droplets, but also with phase transitions (nucleation, cavitation, boiling, melting, dissolution, freezing, evaporation). He also has a keen interest in applying measurements techniques, like laser Doppler anemometry, particle tracking velocimetry, and high-speed particle image velocimetry, to the aforementioned geometries, and develop new algorithms and methods to analyze flows.
Winner of the Leen van Wijngaarden Prize 2019
Dr.ir. Florian Muijres, WUR
Biomechanics and aerodynamics of animal flight
LvW Prize 2019 – Florian Muijres
The Leen van Wijngaarden Prize 2019 has been awarded to Dr Florian Muijres (WUR) for his excellent work on the study of biomechanics and aerodynamics of animal flight, in which he integrates biology and physics in a very elegant way. For his research on insect flight, he focusses on insects with societal relevance such as malaria mosquitoes and pollinating bees. Florian’s bird flight research primarily focusses on the link between the biomechanics of animal flight and movement ecology. The research of Florian Muijres is positioned at the interface between biology, physics and ecology, which requires a highly interdisciplinary lab housing specialists in aerospace engineering, control theory, biology and ecology.
It was planned to award the Leen van Wijngaarden Prize 2019 at the Burgers Symposium 2020, which was scheduled for 27-28 May 2020. Since the Symposium 2020 has been canceled because of the corona crisis, the Prize has been awarded at the next Burgers Symposium, which took place in an online format.
Winner of the Leen van Wijngaarden Prize 2015
Prof.dr. Jacco Snoeijer, UT & TU/e
Dynamics of wetting
LvW Prize 2015 – Jacco Snoeijer
The Leen van Wijngaarden Prize 2015 has been awarded to Prof Jacco Snoeijer (UT & TU/e) for his excellent work on the dynamics of wetting and moving contact lines. Jacco Snoeijer’s research focuses on flows in the presence of a free surface, such as thin liquid films, drops or bubbles. These flows are governed by capillary forces (surface tension) and lead to many interesting shapes and phenomena. He is also interested in the elastic interaction of fluids with soft boundaries. Besides fundamental interest, capillary flows are at the core of industrial applications like coating and small-scale imaging technologies.
Winner of the Leen van Wijngaarden Prize 2011
Dr.ir. Gerrit E. Elsinga, TUD
3D insights into turbulence
LvW Prize 2011 – Gerrit Elsinga
