The Beginnings of the TSFP Series

 

The International Symposium series on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP) is the successor to the highly regarded series on Turbulent Shear Flows (TSF) which started with its First Symposium at Penn State in 1977 and was run with great farsightedness, enthusiasm and success for 20 years by its founders Professors Franz Durst, Brian Launder, Frank Schmidt and Jim Whitelaw. When this team announced their wish to relinquish their organizational role after the 11th Symposium, held in Grenoble, France, in 1997, this news was received with great regret from all quarters of the turbulence-research community, for TSF had become an instantly recognized acronym for high-quality research and new discoveries in fluid-flow turbulence.


There seemed to be no doubt that TSF should continue in one form or another, since a missing follow-up Symposium would mean a major loss of a well established forum devoted to strengthening the interface between turbulence as a fundamental physical phenomenon and its role as a key ingredient in prediction schemes for solving problems in engineering and environmental fluid dynamics.


It was Professor Nobuhide Kasagi from The University of Tokyo who initiated discussions about the future post-TSF and who acted as the first chairman of the Organizing Committee of the TSFP series, the founding members of which were

  • Nobuhide Kasagi, University of Tokyo, Chair
  • John K. Eaton, Stanford University
  • Joseph A.C. Humphrey, Bucknell University
  • Michael A. Leschziner, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)
  • Martin Sommerfeld, University of Halle-Wittenberg

The TSFP series began with a commitment to broaden the scope of the Symposium (compared with TSF) by integrating new and important areas such as industrial and environmental flows, bio-medical phenomena, non-linear chaotic systems, multi-phase and reacting flows, acoustics, and flow control. One of the new features of TSFP that were also planned was a series of review and panel sessions, in which the current status in key areas of turbulence and shear-flow research would be surveyed by leading experts. In this spirit, the Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena Symposium series started in Santa Barbara, California, in September 12-15, 1999, under the chairmanship of Prof. Sanjoy Banerjee.

TSFP Incorporation

 

On February 11, 2021, the TSFP series was incorporated as a Non-Profit Corporation in the State of California, USA, under the name Symposia on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP). The specific purpose of this corporation includes, but is not limited to, running the TSFP Symposia, in which participants educate and present new discoveries and ongoing research on fundamental and applied topics in the areas of turbulence and shear flow phenomena. The Corporation is managed by the Board of Directors. The Board elects the Officers, which are the President, one or more Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and a Treasurer. The initial Board consisted of the following:

  • Hyung Jin Sung, President
  • Stavros Tavoularis, Vice President
  • Martin Oberlack, Secretary
  • Beverley McKeon, Treasurer
  • Arne Johansson

TSFP Organization

 

The TSFP series is managed by the Executive Committee (EC), whereas the activities and finances of each symposium are managed by the Local Organizing Committee (LOC). The EC invites and encourages suggestions and feedback of the wider international fluid mechanics research community. Announcements for each symposium are circulated to members of a large mailing list. All submitted abstracts are reviewed by several experts as members of the Advisory Committee (AC). A meeting of the AC members to serve as a forum for the discussion of observations, ideas and innovations is held during each symposium. Applications to hold a TSFP are solicited years before the event and unsolicited applications and suggestions are highly encouraged. To ensure as wide as possible global representation and participation, consecutive symposia rotate among continents.

TSFP Proceedings and Journal Publication

 

All articles contributed to all TSFP have been included in printed or electronic proceedings, which are provided to the participants during the Symposia and posted subsequently publicly on the TSFP website. TSFP does not require the transfer of copyright and so authors are free to publish their work elsewhere without needing any permission from TSFP. The proceedings of TSFP1 were posted in open access on the website of Begell House Inc., Danbury, USA, which further sponsored several subsequent Symposia. Selected articles presented at each TSFP have been invited by the editors of peer reviewed scientific journals to be submitted in revised and expanded form to the corresponding journal for possible publication following peer review according to the journal’s regular procedures. The accepted articles are then listed in a special issue of the journal or otherwise identified as containing material presented at the corresponding TSFP. The International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow has regularly published special issues with articles based on TSFP presentations. In addition, Flow Turbulence and Combustion and the Journal of Turbulence have published special issues with articles based on presentations in some previous TSFP.

The Kasagi Award

 

The Nobuhide Kasagi Award was established in 2016 to recognize excellence and innovation for early career researchers, typically within ten years after receiving their doctorate degree, for contributions to an area relevant to the TSFP. Nobuhide Kasagi was among the founders of the TSFP series and a key contributor to its success until his untimely passing in 2015. Starting with TSFP12, the TSFP Nobuhide Kasagi Award has been sponsored by the International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow for which the late Professor Kasagi served as the Editor-in-Chief for many years.

The previous Kasagi Award winners were as follows:

  • TSFP13, 2024: Ricardo Vinuesa, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
  • TSFP12, 2022: Dennice Gayme, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
  • TSFP11, 2019: Daniel Chung, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • TSFP10, 2017: Marcus Hultmark, Princeton University, USA

TSFP Invited Lectures and the J.A.C. Humphrey Lecture

 

The TSFP Executive Committee invites typically five researchers for each Symposium to present their work in areas of importance to TSFP, ensuring diversity of topics and geographical and gender representation among the lecturers. The J.A.C. Humphrey Lecture was introduced at TSFP14; this lecture honours the wide-ranging interdisciplinary contributions of the late Joseph A.C. Humphrey, one of the founders of the TSFP series.

The list of TSFP Invited Lecturers is as follows:

TSFP14, Heidelberg, Germany, July 28 – July 31, 2026

  • Bérengère Dubrulle, France
  • Rama Govindarajan, India
  • Megan Leftwich, USA
  • Florian Menter, Germany
  • Carlos Pantano-Rubino, USA

TSFP13, Montreal, Canada, June 25 – June 28, 2024

  • Karthik Duraisamy, USA
  • Bettina Frohnapfel, Germany
  • Stéphane Moreau, Canada
  • Joerg Schumacher, Germany
  • Chunxiao Xu, China

TSFP12, Osaka, Japan, July 19 – July 22, 2022

  • Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, UK
  • Pino Martin, USA
  • Makoto Tsubokura, Japan
  • Michael Wilczek, Germany
  • Tamer Zaki, USA

TSFP11, Southampton, UK, July 30 – August 2, 2019

  • Holger Babinsky, UK
  • Luca Brandt, Sweden
  • Genta Kawahara, Japan
  • Ellen Longmire, USA
  • Jason Monty, Australia

TSFP10, Chicago, USA, July 7 – July 9, 2017

  • Jacqueline Chen, USA
  • Changhoon Lee, Korea
  • Detlef Lohse, Netherlands
  • Beverley McKeon, USA
  • Charles Meneveau, USA

TSFP9, Melbourne, Australia, June 30 – July 3, 2015

  • Nicholas Hutchins, Australia
  • John Kim, USA
  • Michael Plesniak, USA
  • Neil Sandham, UK
  • Alfredo Soldati, Italy

TSFP8, Poitiers, France, August 28 – 30, 2013

  • Eberhard Bodenschatz, Germany
  • Sébastien Candel, France
  • Gianluca Iaccarino, USA
  • Yukio Kaneda, Japan
  • Ugo Piomelli, Canada

TSFP7, Ottawa, Canada, July 28 – 31, 2011

  • Chisaki Kato, Japan
  • Martin Oberlack, Germany
  • Philipp Schlatter, Sweden
  • Alexander Smits, USA
  • Donald Webster, USA

TSFP6, Seoul, Korea, June 22 – June 24, 2009

  • Satoru Komori, Japan
  • Ivan Marusic, Australia
  • Paolo Orlandi, Italy
  • Heinz Pitsch, USA
  • Jerry Westerweel, Netherlands

TSFP5, Munich, Germany, August 27 – August 29, 2007

  • Haecheon Choi, Korea
  • Petros Koumoutsakos, Switzerland
  • Toshio Miyauchi, Japan
  • Robert Moser, USA
  • Sutanu Sarkar, USA
  • Cameron Tropea, Germany

TSFP4, Williamsburg, USA, June 27 – June 29, 2005

  • Henk Dijkstra, USA
  • Koichi Hishida, Japan
  • Sanjiva Lele, USA
  • Timothy Pedley, UK
  • Roger Simpson, USA

TSFP3, Sendai, Japan, June 25 – June 27, 2003

  • Jean-Pierre Bertoglio, France
  • Lennart Löfdahl, Sweden
  • Yutaka Tsuji, Japan
  • Luc Vervisch, France
  • Sheldon Weinbaum, USA

TSFP2, Stockholm, Sweden, June 27 – June 29, 2001

  • Gustav Amberg, Sweden
  • Jean-Paul Bonnet, France
  • Thomas Gatski, USA
  • Parviz Moin, USA
  • Stephen Pope, USA
  • Olivier Simonin, France

TSFP1, Santa Barbara, USA, September 12 – September 15, 1999

  • Harindra Fernando, USA
  • Morteza Gharib, USA
  • Ari Glezer, USA
  • Richard Perkins, France
  • Thierry Poinsot, France

The TSFP Executive Committee

 

The Executive Committee (EC) has typically five regular members and one ex-officio member, who is the Chair of the current Local Organizing Committee (LOC). The term duration of each regular member is unspecified, but it is understood that each new member must accept to serve on the committee for at least five years. The term duration of the ex-officio member is two years. The regular members of the EC are selected to ensure global geographical representation. EC members operate on a volunteer basis and do not receive any financial compensation. The Chair of the EC is elected by the regular EC members. In earlier TSFP, the EC was identified as the Organizing Committee.

The members of past TSFP Executive Committees are as follows:

TSFP14, Heidelberg, Germany, July 28 – July 31, 2026

  • Beverley McKeon, Stanford University, USA, Chair
  • Koji Fukagata, Keio University, Japan
  • Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, University of Southampton, UK
  • Martin Oberlack, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, regular member and ex officio
  • Stavros Tavoularis, University of Ottawa, Canada

TSFP13, Montreal, Canada, June 25 – June 28, 2024

  • Stavros Tavoularis, University of Ottawa, Canada, Chair
  • Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, University of Southampton, UK
  • Beverley McKeon, Stanford University, USA
  • Martin Oberlack, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
  • Hyung Jin Sung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea
  • Laurent Mydlarski, McGill University, Canada, ex officio

TSFP12, Osaka, Japan, July 19 – July 22, 2022

  • Hyung Jin Sung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, Chair
  • Arne V. Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
  • Beverley McKeon, California Institute of Technology, USA
  • Martin Oberlack, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
  • Stavros Tavoularis, University of Ottawa, Canada
  • Kazuhiko Suga, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan, ex officio

TSFP11, Southampton, UK, July 30 – August 2, 2019

  • Martin Oberlack, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, Chair
  • Arne V. Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
  • Beverley McKeon, California Institute of Technology, USA
  • Hyung Jin Sung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea
  • Stavros Tavoularis, University of Ottawa, Canada
  • Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, University of Southampton, UK, ex officio

TSFP10, Chicago, USA, July 7 – July 9, 2017

  • Alexander J. Smits, Princeton University, USA, Chair
  • Arne V. Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
  • Martin Oberlack, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
  • Hyung Jin Sung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea
  • Stavros Tavoularis, University of Ottawa, Canada
  • Hassan Nagib, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA, ex officio

TSFP9, Melbourne, Australia, June 30 – July 3, 2015

  • Stavros Tavoularis, University of Ottawa, Canada, Chair
  • Rainer Friedrich, Technische Universität München, Germany
  • Arne V. Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
  • Alexander J. Smits, Princeton University, USA
  • Hyung Jin Sung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea
  • Ivan Marusic, University of Melbourne, Australia, ex officio

TSFP8, Poitiers, France, August 28 – 30, 2013

  • Arne V. Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, Chair
  • Rainer Friedrich, Technische Universität München, Germany
  • Alexander J. Smits, Princeton University, USA
  • Hyung Jin Sung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea
  • Stavros Tavoularis, University of Ottawa, Canada
  • Jean-Paul Bonnet, CNRS, University of Poitiers, ENSMA, France, ex officio

TSFP7, Ottawa, Canada, July 28 – 31, 2011

  • John K. Eaton, Stanford University, USA, Chair
  • Rainer Friedrich, Technische Universität München, Germany
  • Arne V. Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
  • Nobuhide Kasagi, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Donald Webster, USA
  • Stavros Tavoularis, University of Ottawa, Canada, ex officio

TSFP6, Seoul, Korea, June 22 – June 24, 2009

  • Nobuhide Kasagi, University of Tokyo, Japan, Chair
  • John K. Eaton, Stanford University, USA
  • Rainer Friedrich, Technische Universität München, Germany
  • Joseph A.C. Humphrey, University of Virginia, USA
  • Arne V. Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
  • Hyung Jin Sung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, ex officio

TSFP5, Munich, Germany, August 27 – August 29, 2007

  • Rainer Friedrich, Technische Universität München, Germany, Chair
  • John K. Eaton, Stanford University, USA
  • Joseph A.C. Humphrey, University of Virginia, USA
  • Nobuhide Kasagi, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Michael A. Leschziner, Imperial College London, UK
  • Nikolaus A. Adams, Technische Universität München, Germany, ex officio

TSFP4, Williamsburg, USA, June 27 – June 29, 2005

  • Joseph A.C. Humphrey, University of Virginia, USA, Chair
  • John K. Eaton, Stanford University, USA
  • Rainer Friedrich, Technische Universität München, Germany
  • Nobuhide Kasagi, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Michael A. Leschziner, Imperial College London, UK
  • Thomas B. Gatski, NASA Langley Research Center, USA, ex officio

TSFP3, Sendai, Japan, June 25 – June 27, 2003

  • Nobuhide Kasagi, University of Tokyo, Japan, Chair
  • John K. Eaton, Stanford University, USA
  • Rainer Friedrich, Technische Universität München, Germany
  • Joseph A.C. Humphrey, University of Virginia, USA
  • Michael A. Leschziner, Imperial College London, UK
  • Toshio Miyauchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, ex officio

TSFP2, Stockholm, Sweden, June 27 – June 29, 2001

  • Michael A. Leschziner, Imperial College London, UK, Chair
  • John K. Eaton, Stanford University, USA
  • Joseph A.C. Humphrey, University of Virginia, USA
  • Nobuhide Kasagi, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Martin Sommerfeld, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
  • Arne V. Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, ex officio

TSFP1, Santa Barbara, USA, September 12 – September 15, 1999

  • Nobuhide Kasagi, University of Tokyo, Japan, Chair
  • John K. Eaton, Stanford University, USA
  • Joseph A.C. Humphrey, University of Virginia, USA
  • Michael A. Leschziner, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK
  • Martin Sommerfeld, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
  • Sanjoy Banerjee, University of California Santa Barbara, ex officio