FED Reception
Sunday, July 29th
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Lanai Area (West Tower)

Join us for the opening reception of the 2007 Fluids Engineering Conference. Mingle with your friends and colleagues while enjoying delicious appetizers and cocktails (a cash bar will be available). This event is open to all attendees, however tickets are required unless you are wearing your conference badge.

Honors and Awards Luncheon
Tuesday, July 31st
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Harbor Island II / III Ballroom

The luncheon will honor all Division award recipients. This year's keynote speaker is Dr. Walter Munk, Secretary of the Navy Chair in Oceanography Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Dr. Walter Munk
Secretary of the Navy Chair in Oceanography
Scripps Institution of Oceanography

In the early fifties, a few hardy pioneers of California surfing were aware of the occasional arrival during summer of a long rolling "ground-swell". None knew (and few cared) about the origin of the ground-swell. Now every member of a large community knows that the swell is generated in the winter storms of the southern oceans, at distances well beyond 10,000 km. The talk will tell the story of the discovery of the source waters in three successive experiments.

Walter Munk received his Ph.D. at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California in 1947. He then became professor of geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he has continued to work to this day. His principal research interests are ocean acoustics, tides, waves, tsunamis, and the earth’s rotation. Dr. Munk has received many awards and honors for his work, including the National Medal of Science (1985); William Bowie Medal, American Geophysical Union (1989); Vetlesen Prize, Columbia University (1993); Kyoto Prize, Japan (1999); Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, University of Bergen, Norway (1975), University of Cambridge, England (1986), University Crete, Greece (1996). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1956), The Royal Society, London (1976), American Philosophical Society (1976), Russian Academy of Sciences (1994), and an honorary fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (2004).

Fluids Engineering Award Lecture
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm / Marina II

Alexander J. Smits
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University

Presentation: "Turbulence in Pipes: the Moody Diagram and Moore's Law"

The Moody Diagram has been used to estimate frictional losses in smooth and rough pipes since it was first proposed in 1944. Recent experiments at Princeton in fully-developed turbulent pipe flow have shown that many of the assumptions made in deriving this engineering guide are not correct. In particular, a detailed study of the velocity profile in a smooth pipe at very high Reynolds numbers has led to an improved correlation for the smooth pipe friction factor, and a careful examination of the behavior for rough surfaces demonstrates the shortcomings of the friction factor correlation used by Moody for transitionally rough surfaces. What is urgently needed is a predictive method to determine the flow behavior given the roughness topology. Recent progress in this direction will be discussed, as well as the possible role of petascale computations for the prediction of turbulent flow for smooth and rough-wall pipes.