Fluid mechanics underpins many established and emerging UK industries as well as critical societal issues such as air pollution, energy consumption, climate science, biology and medicine. Fluid mechanics is particularly strong in the UK, with world-class activity at several dozen institutions, involving hundreds of scientists and engineers. These institutions and individuals need to work together in order to benefit from the recent trend towards funding a small number of large grants. If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us.

The aims of the UK Fluids Network are to:
  • develop cross-institution bottom-up research programs and proposals;
  • promote links with researchers and organisations in Europe and beyond;
  • provide resources to the research community worldwide;
  • act as a broker between UK academics and industry.
The UKFN funds:
  • Special Interest Groups (SIGs);
  • Short Research Visits (SRVs);
  • a website containing resources for all fluid mechanics researchers.
We encourage you to join the network and to play a part by:
  • signing up for the monthly newsletter
  • registering your expertise in our searchable database of researchers;
  • joining a Special Interest Group by emailing the SIG leader;
  • contributing talks or researcher resources.

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Executive Committee

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Advisory Board

  • Dr Simon Bittleston, Schlumberger Gould Research
  • Dr Ton van den Bremer, University of Oxford
  • Prof. GertJan van Heijst, Burgerscentrum
  • Prof. Ann Karagozian, American Physical Society DFD and UCLA
  • Dr David Standingford, Zenotech

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Competitions

 

UK Fluids Network Thesis Prize

2023 Competition

We are pleased to announce that from now onwards, Internal and External Examiners can 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. Full details are given here. The winner of the Award receives a prize of £500.

Nominations for theses examined in 2022 will be entered in the 2023 competition, and must be submitted by the extended deadline of 31st March 2023. The winner will be announced by 31st May 2023.

 

2022 Thesis Prize

Winner:
Craig Duguid (University of Leeds), 'The influence of convection on tidal flows' [link]

Runner-up:
Luke Masini (University of Liverpool), 'On Transonic Wing Shock Unsteadiness' [link]

 

2021 Thesis Prize

Winner:
Laura Cope (University of Cambridge), 'The Dynamics of Geophysical and Astrophysical Turbulence' [link]

Shortlisted:
Ricardo Constante-Amores (Imperial College London), 'Three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics simulations of complex multiphase flows with surfactants' [link]
Thomas Sykes (University of Leeds), 'Internal Dynamics of Coalescing Droplets' [link]
Clint Wong (University of Oxford), 'Fluid Flow Through Vegetation' [link]
Hans Yu (University of Cambridge), 'Inverse Problems in Thermoacoustics' [link]

 

2020 Thesis Prize

Joint Winners*:
Peter Baddoo (University of Cambridge), 'Analytic Solutions for Flows Through Cascades' [link]

Hannah Kreczak (University of Leeds), 'Rates of mixing in models of fluid devices with discontinuities' [link]

James Steer (University of Edinburgh), 'Experimental study of wave dispersion and stability in crossing seas and on sheared currents' [link]

*The six members of the incoming Executive Committee read the three entries on the shortlist and agreed that all three theses were outstanding and worthy of the thesis prize. Each member had independently ranked the theses and, when tallied, the overall result was a three-way tie, even after inclusion of second and third preferences. The Committee therefore agreed to award the top prize jointly to all three applicants.


2019 Thesis Prize

Winner:
Adrien Lefauve (University of Cambridge): 'Waves and turbulence in sustained stratified shear flows' [link]

Runners-up:
Paweł Baj (Imperial College London): 'Experimental investigation of wake development and mixing behind a multi-scale array of bars' [link]
Matthew Arran (University of Cambridge): 'Avalanching on dunes and its effects: Size statistics, stratification, & seismic surveys' [link]

 

2018 Thesis Prize

Winner:
Yi Man (University of Cambridge): ‘Swimming at low Reynolds number: slip boundaries and interacting filaments’ [link]

Runners-up:
Rowan Brackston (Imperial College London): ‘Feedback control of three-dimensional bluff body wakes for efficient drag reduction’ [link]
Simeng Chen (University of Liverpool): ‘An experimental investigation of drop impact phenomena with complex fluids on heated and soft surfaces’ [link]

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Documents

Minutes of meetings

 

 

List of emails sent to mailing list

Mailman archive

UK Fluids Conferences

2022 - University of Sheffield

2021 - University of Southampton (online)

Reference

Communications

Set of values

Proposal documents

Grants on the Web

Web pages giving details of the EPSRC grant for UK Fluids Network. There are multiple entries because it was a joint proposal between Cambridge, ICL, Leeds, Manchester, and Southampton.