Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Mehrdad Massoudi, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously offer their time to review the papers submitted to Fluids by presenting an award to those reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for Fluids.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for this award?
All of the reviewers for Fluids in 2023 will be automatically included.

Selection Criteria:
– Number of review reports;
– The quality and timeliness of review reports.

What will the winners receive?
There will be two winners this year, and each will receive the following:
– CHF 300;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in 2024 after peer review;
– A certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced on 31 March 2024 on the journal website.

How can I make myself eligible?
If you have not yet reviewed papers for Fluids, but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit.

Kind regards,
Fluids Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Fluids 2022 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in 2022. One review and two research articles will receive an award each. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. D. Andrew S. Rees.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in Fluids in 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria:
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads. 

The Prize:
– One review award: CHF 300 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Fluids in 2024 after peer review;
– Two research article awards: CHF 300 CHF and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Fluids in 2024 after peer review.
– Each winner will also receive a certificate. 

The winners will be announced on the journal website on 31 March 2024. 

Kind regards,
Fluids Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Fluids 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Fluids Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Fluids. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Giorgio Sonnino
Affiliation: Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
Research Interests: thermodynamics of irreversible processes; fluid mechanics; complex systems and nonlinear phenomena; fusion science; information theory; cryptography; dynamics of populations

Prof. Dr. Luiz Antonio Alcântara Pereira
Affiliation: Federal University of Itajubá (UNIFEI), Itajubá, Brazil
Research Interests: Fluid-structure interaction (FSI); Flow-induced vibrations (FIV); turbulence modelling; surface roughness effect; mass and heat transfer

The Prize for Each Winner:
– CHF 300;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Fluids in 2023 after peer review;
– A certificate.

Kind regards,
Fluids Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues, 

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Fluids 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 in Fluids were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, three winners were selected. 

One Review
Coaxial Circular Jets—A Review
By René van Hout, Sudharson Murugan, Abhijit Mitra and Beni Cukurel
Fluids 2021, 6(4), 147; doi.org/10.3390/fluids6040147 

Two Articles
Precise Method to Estimate the Herschel-Bulkley Parameters from Pipe Rheometer Measurements
By Elie Magnon and Eric Cayeux
Fluids 2021, 6(4), 157; doi.org/10.3390/fluids6040157 

Lagrangian vs. Eulerian: An Analysis of Two Solution Methods for Free-Surface Flows and Fluid Solid Interaction Problems
By Milad Rakhsha, Christopher E. Kees and Dan Negrut
Fluids 2021, 6(12), 460; doi.org/10.3390/fluids6120460 

Each winner will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper in Fluids in 2023 after peer review. 

Please join us in congratulating the winners of Fluids 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for their continued support of Fluids. 

Kind regards,
Fluids Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Fluids, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Fluids 2021–2022 Travel Award.

The award has been granted to:

Dr. Alberto Zingaro, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Italy;

Dr. Sarah E. Morris, a postdoctoral researcher in Aerospace Engineering, Auburn University, USA.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse range of fascinating research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

Editor-in-Chief,
Prof. Dr. Mehrdad Massoudi,
on behalf of the Fluids 2021–2022 Travel Award/Evaluation Committee

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Fluids 2020 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2020 in Fluids were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the three winning papers, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor-in-Chief, have been selected.

One Review:
A Review of Topology Optimisation for Fluid-Based Problems
By Joe Alexandersen and Casper Schousboe Andreasen
Fluids 2020, 5(1), 29; 10.3390/fluids5010029

Two research articles:
On the Deterministic Prediction of Water Waves
By Marco Klein, Matthias Dudek, Günther F. Clauss, Sören Ehlers, Jasper
Behrendt, Norbert Hoffman and Miguel Onorato
Fluids 2020, 5(1), 9; 10.3390/fluids5010009

On the Effect of Block Roughness in Ogee Spillways with Flip Buckets
By Rasoul Daneshfaraz, Amir Ghaderi, Aliakbar Akhtari, Silvia Di Francesco
Fluids 2020, 5(4), 182; 10.3390/fluids5040182

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper in Fluids in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Fluids, and thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Dear colleagues,

Fluids established the Best Paper Award to recognize its best published papers in 2019. After rigorous evaluation by the Assessment Committee, we are pleased to announce the winner of the Fluids 2019 Best Paper award.

Statistics of Extreme Waves in Coastal Waters: Large Scale Experiments and Advanced Numerical Simulations
By Jie Zhang, Michel Benoit, Olivier Kimmoun, Amin Chabchoub and Hung- Chu Hsu
Fluids 2019, 4, 99; doi:10.3390/fluids 4020099

The Best Paper Award winner will be given a certificate, a cash award of 500 CHF, and an opportunity to publish a paper in Fluids free of charge (equivalent to 1400 CHF) in open access format after the standard peer review process in 2021.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Fluids, and thank the Award Committee for voting andhelping with these awards.

Fluids Editorial Office

Fluids established the Best Paper Award to recognize its best published papers in 2018. All papers published in 2018 are eligible for consideration.

The following winner is selected by the Evaluation Committee composed of Fluids’ Editorial Board members based on the originality and novelty/significance of the paper, number of citations, views, and downloads from the website.

Differential Diffusivity Effects in Reactive Convective Dissolution
Loodts, H. Saghou, B. Knaepen, L. Rongy and A. De Wit
Fluids 2018, 3, 83; https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids3040083

The Best Paper Award winner will be given a certificate, a cash award of 500 CHF, and an opportunity to publish a paper in Fluids free of charge (equivalent to 1000 CHF) in open-access format after the standard peer-review process.

Dear Colleagues,

It is our great pleasure to announce the two winners of the 2019 Fluids Travel Awards: Elham Alipour Tarzanagh, Ph.D. Candidate at University of Adelaide, Australia, and Peter J. Baddoo, Ph.D. Candidate at University of Cambridge, UK. The awards consist of 400 Swiss Francs each to attend an academic conference of the winner’s choice in the second half of 2019 or first half of 2020.

Ms. Elham Alipour Tarzanagh works on hybrid solar receivers, turbulent flows and particle image velocimetry (PIV). She will present her research “The Relative Influence of the Flow Through Combustion Nozzles and an External Wind on the Induced Flows through the Aperture of a Hybrid Solar Receiver Combustor” at 17th European Turbulence Conference (ETC 2019), 3–6 September 2019, in Torino, Italy. 

Mr. Peter J. Baddoo’s research is focussed on applying complex variable methods to study flows through periodic domains. He will present his research “Exact Solutions to Flows in Periodic Domains” at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 23–26 November 2019, in Seattle, WA, USA.

On behalf of the award committee, we would like to thank all applicants for their incredible submissions and to congratulate Ms. Elham Alipour Tarzanagh and Mr. Peter J. Baddoo for their remarkable accomplishment.

Fluids Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Fluids Travel Award: Yaqing Jin, Ph.D. Candidate at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs to attend any academic conference in the second half year of 2018 or first half year of 2019.

Mr. Yaqing Jin works on fluid-structure interaction, advanced flow diagnostics, wind energy and turbulence. He will present his research “Turbulence-Driven Reverse Lift on Structures with Deflected Tails” at the 71st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 18 November 2018, in Atlanta, GA, USA.

It was a difficult decision, given the exceptional quality of about 100 applications for the award. We would like to thank all applicants and to congratulate Mr. Yaqing Jin for his accomplishments.

Fluids Editorial Office