[Jinlai]

does anyone know？

[vesp]

There is no way to determine or measure that.

[Jinlai]

Originally Posted by vesp

There is no way to determine or measure that.

why？does acadamic achievement can measure?

[vesp]

Originally Posted by Jinlai

why？does acadamic achievement can measure?

I am not sure if I understand your comment / question.
But no, there is no established, reliable and fair way to measure academic achievements in such a broad field as fluid mechanics.

[Jinlai]

Originally Posted by vesp

I am not sure if I understand your comment / question.
But no, there is no established, reliable and fair way to measure academic achievements in such a broad field as fluid mechanics.

thanks,but do you know some famous people in this field?

can you list it ?

[vesp]

Originally Posted by Jinlai

thanks,but do you know some famous people in this field?



can you list it ?

sure, I know some renowned scientist - but within my community only wish is only a tiny part of the fluid mechanics field. So I do not feel qualified to speak for the field of fluid mechanics, in particular in terms of recent developments.
Everybody knows Euler, Newton, Prandtl, Batchelor, Obhukov, Kolmogorov, ....

[Jinlai]

Originally Posted by vesp

sure, I know some renowned scientist - but within my community only wish is only a tiny part of the fluid mechanics field. So I do not feel qualified to speak for the field of fluid mechanics, in particular in terms of recent developments.
Everybody knows Euler, Newton, Prandtl, Batchelor, Obhukov, Kolmogorov, ....

thanks,but I want to know the scientist in this field in recent twenty years

[vesp]

then you should define a metric in which to measure that. But I doubt that you will find a meaningful answer - the question is as ambiguous and non-sensical as asking: which car was the best during the last 20 years..

[Jinlai]

Originally Posted by vesp

then you should define a metric in which to measure that. But I doubt that you will find a meaningful answer - the question is as ambiguous and non-sensical as asking: which car was the best during the last 20 years..

like Paper citation times more than 2000

[vesp]

Originally Posted by Jinlai

like Paper citation times more than 2000

sorry for being so direct, but that is just a stupid idea.

For what purposeare you look okong for these people?

And if citations are your metric, google scholar can answer that for you

[FMDenaro]

For example, in 2018 G. Gallavotti was awarded "Poincaré prize" for the Physics. He worked also in the fluid dynamics field.
However, that does not define the best scientist in fluid dynamics simply beacause there is no way to define "the best one".

[LuckyTran]

Fluid mechanics is such a broad field with nobody (that I know of anyway) even covers all aspects of it that I wouldn't say anyone deserves this title. I would agree with some of the sentiments here that there simply are no outstanding renowned people in fluid mechanics currently except in niche parts of fluids.

Heck, even in turbulence Kolmogorov was a mathematician doing statistics. Okay that's maybe too far in the past. Let's look at someone who's still alive. Stephen Pope wrote the very popular book Turbulent Flows but he no longer does turbulence, he's a combustion guy now.

[FMDenaro]

Originally Posted by LuckyTran

Fluid mechanics is such a broad field with nobody (that I know of anyway) even covers all aspects of it that I wouldn't say anyone deserves this title. I would agree with some of the sentiments here that there simply are no outstanding renowned people in fluid mechanics currently except in niche parts of fluids.

Heck, even in turbulence Kolmogorov was a mathematician doing statistics. Okay that's maybe too far in the past. Let's look at someone who's still alive. Stephen Pope wrote the very popular book Turbulent Flows but he no longer does turbulence, he's a combustion guy now.

Totally agreed. I add that makes no sense also asking for the best every year.