Internal and External Examiners can now nominate a PhD candidate for the UKFN Prize for the best UK Fluids thesis at any time of the year.

The thesis must be for a doctoral degree in fluids-related research awarded by a UK institution. Examiners can submit the nomination to competition@fluids.ac.uk as soon as the PhD examination has taken place: a citation of 300-500 words is required from each Examiner together with brief details of the candidate and their thesis. The winner of the Award receives a prize of £500, and (programme permitting) will be invited to present their work at the UK Fluids Conference.

Nominations for theses examined in 2022 will be entered in the 2023 competition, and must be submitted at any time before 1st March 2023. The winner will be announced by 31st May 2023.

The 6th UK Fluids Conference took place on 6-8 September in Sheffield. It was well-attended with more than 220 delegates, and a full programme of 150 presentations in 3 parallel sessions, plus around 40 poster presentations.

Congratulations to the winners and runners-up of the competitions for best PhD student oral and poster presentations:

Oral presentations

Winner - Elijah Andrews (University of Southampton), 'Bubble collapse near porous plates'

Runner-up - Matilde Fiori (University of Oxford), 'Impact of large periodic deformations on solute transport in soft porous media'

Poster presentations

Winner - Jennifer Stout (University of Reading), 'Oscillatory motions of falling snowflakes'

Runner-up - Emily Butler (University of Leeds), 'An investigation of the fluid structure interaction in articular cartilage across disparate scales'

The next conference in the series is planned for Glasgow in 2023.

In Nov 2020 the UK Fluids Network asked the UK Fluids community for ideas about future initiatives in Fluid Dynamics. This report contains a summary of the responses.

A video of the launch event for this report is available by clicking 'Read More' below

This new report, which details the current value of fluid dynamics to the UK, can be downloaded by clicking on 'read more' below

The ERCOFTAC Osborne Reynolds Day and Competition 2023 will be held on Friday 7th July at the University of Manchester. New and soon-to-graduate PhDs are invited to submit abstracts on their research by email. The deadline for submission is 10th April 2023. Full details are available at https://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/connect/events/osborne-reynolds-day/

This year's conference is being organised jointly by University of Glasgow and University of Strathclyde. The conference website will be live soon.

The symposium will bring together internationally leading experts in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and promote panel discussions on numerical methods for unsteady flows. Please see https://www.cufs.co.uk/ for further information. Abstract submission closes 15th April 2023.