Prof. Katepalli Raju Sreenivasan is an internationally renowned expert in the field of flow turbulence. Both scientists, Prof. Sreenivasan and his Ilmenau host, Prof. Jörg Schumacher, have known each other for 25 years and have worked closely together ever since. Prof. Sreenivasan worked at Yale University at the time and Jörg Schumacher worked in his research group as a young postdoctoral researcher with a Feodor-Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
As a young scientist, Prof. Katepalli Raju Sreenivasan completed his doctorate in aerodynamics at the Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru. His further scientific career took him via Australia to the USA, where he held positions at Johns Hopkins University Baltimore and professorships at Yale University, the University of Maryland College Park and New York University. From 2003 to 2010, he was Abdus Salaam Research Professor and Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, which is supported by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Prof. Sreenivasan is being honored with the Humboldt Research Award for his groundbreaking work on the dynamics of turbulence, i.e. the turbulence of a flow, as well as on quantum turbulence and the theory of fractals in turbulence. Fractals are geometric shapes that repeat themselves from the smallest to the largest and, as already observed by Leonardo da Vinci, occur in different sizes, for example in crystal growth or as flow vortices. In his research, Sreenivasan always combined theory, experiments and large-scale numerical simulations. In recognition of the outstanding quality of his achievements, he has been awarded numerous prizes since his postdoctoral period, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and three prizes from the American Physical Society: the Otto Laporte Memorial Award, the Fluid Dynamics Prize and the Leo P. Kadanoff Prize. Prof. Sreenivasan is a member of numerous scientific institutions and academies, including the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Engineering and the Indian National Engineering Academy.
Contact
Prof. Jörg Schumacher
Head of Fluid Mechanics Group
+49 3677 69-2428
joerg.schumacher@tu-ilmenau.de
