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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fluid Dynamics Prize, American Physical Society (APS)
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1997 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1990 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1982 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1978 - Fritz London Memorial Prize, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
  • 1971 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)

Overview

Guenter Ahlers is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily within engineering and environmental science, with a focus on computational mechanics and global and planetary change as notable subfields.

Their scholarly work broadly covers topics including fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies, phase equilibria and thermodynamics, wind and air flow studies, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and combustion and flame dynamics.

Frequent co-authors working alongside Ahlers include Eberhard Bodenschatz, Xiaozhou He, Marcel Wedi, Lukas Zwirner, and Stephan Weiss.

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in venues such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters.

Recent representative papers are:

  • Aspect Ratio Dependence of Heat Transfer in a Cylindrical Rayleigh-Bénard Cell, 2022, Physical Review Letters
  • Universal scaling of temperature variance in Rayleigh-Bénard convection near the transition to the ultimate state, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Boundary Zonal Flow in Rotating Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Aspect ratio dependence of the ultimate-state transition in turbulent thermal convection, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • He et al. Reply:, 2020, Physical Review Letters

Ahlers has received multiple recognitions including the Fluid Dynamics Prize from the American Physical Society in 2007, fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1997. Other notable distinctions include fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1990, membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 1982, the Fritz London Memorial Prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics in 1978, and fellowship in the American Physical Society since 1971.

Best Publications

  • Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena

    H. Eugene Stanley;Guenter Ahlers

  • Heat transfer and large scale dynamics in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

    Guenter Ahlers;Siegfried Grossmann;Detlef Lohse

  • Recent Developments in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

    Eberhard Bodenschatz;Werner Pesch;Guenter Ahlers

  • Spiral defect chaos in large aspect ratio Rayleigh-Bénard convection.

    Stephen W. Morris;Eberhard Bodenschatz;David S. Cannell;Guenter Ahlers

  • Evolution of Turbulence from the Rayleigh-Bénard Instability

    Guenter Ahlers;R. P. Behringer

  • Transition to the Ultimate State of Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

    Xiaozhou He;Denis Funfschilling;Holger Nobach;Eberhard Bodenschatz

  • Transitions between patterns in thermal convection.

    E. Bodenschatz;J. R. De Bruyn;J. R. De Bruyn;G. Ahlers;G. Ahlers;D. S. Cannell;D. S. Cannell

  • Reorientation of the large-scale circulation in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection.

    Eric Brown;Alexei Nikolaenko;Guenter Ahlers

  • Localized traveling-wave states in binary-fluid convection.

    Joseph J. Niemela;Guenter Ahlers;David S. Cannell

  • Rotations and cessations of the large-scale circulation in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection

    Eric Brown;Guenter Ahlers

  • Low-Temperature Studies of the Rayieigh-Bénard Instability and Turbulence

    Guenter Ahlers

  • Apparatus for the study of Rayleigh–Bénard convection in gases under pressure

    John R. de Bruyn;Eberhard Bodenschatz;Stephen W. Morris;Steven P. Trainoff

  • Plume motion and large-scale circulation in a cylindrical Rayleigh-Bénard cell.

    Denis Funfschilling;Guenter Ahlers

  • Heat transport by turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection in cylindrical cells with aspect ratio one and less

    Alexei Nikolaenko;Eric Brown;Denis Funfschilling;Guenter Ahlers

  • Non-Oberbeck-Boussinesq effects in strongly turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

    Guenter Ahlers;Eric Brown;Francisco Fontenele Araujo;Denis Funfschilling

  • Prandtl-, Rayleigh-, and Rossby-number dependence of heat transport in turbulent rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection

    Jin-Qiang Zhong;Richard J. A. M. Stevens;Herman J. H. Clercx;Herman J. H. Clercx;Roberto Verzicco

  • Traveling waves and spatial variation in the convection of a binary mixture

    Richard Heinrichs;Guenter Ahlers;David S. Cannell

  • Prandtl-Number Dependence of Heat Transport in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

    Guenter Ahlers;Xiaochao Xu

  • The amplitude equation near the convective threshold: application to time-dependent heating experiments

    Guenter Ahlers;M. C. Cross;P. C. Hohenberg;S. Safran

  • Thermally Induced Fluctuations below the Onset of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

    Mingming Wu;Guenter Ahlers;David S. Cannell

Frequent Co-Authors

Eberhard Bodenschatz
Eberhard Bodenschatz Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
David S. Cannell
David S. Cannell University of California, Santa Barbara
Detlef Lohse
Detlef Lohse University of Twente
Robert E. Ecke
Robert E. Ecke Los Alamos National Laboratory
Siegfried Grossmann
Siegfried Grossmann Philipp University of Marburg
Chao Sun
Chao Sun Tsinghua University
Richard J. A. M. Stevens
Richard J. A. M. Stevens University of Twente
Victor Steinberg
Victor Steinberg Weizmann Institute of Science
Robert Behringer
Robert Behringer Duke University
Roberto Verzicco
Roberto Verzicco University of Rome Tor Vergata

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