RINA award two prizes to doctorate students
The Royal Institute of Naval Architecture (RINA) has recently awarded prizes to two Engineering Sciences research students.
Aymeric Querard and Bernhard Godderidge have both recently completed their doctorate degrees working with the Fluid Structure Interactions research group.
Aymeric Querard has been awarded the Austin Farrar Prize for his paper: A comparative study between wind-tunnel experiments and RANS simulations of modern square headed main sails. (Co-author P A Wilson).
The Austin Farrar Prize is awarded annually for the best paper published by the Institution on the subject of small craft, by a member under the age of 30.
Bernhard Godderidge has received the Samuel Baxter Prize for his paper: A simplified pump tower approach for realistic CFD simulation of sloshing in LNG tanks. (Co-authors S R Turnock and M Tan).
The Samuel Baxter Prize is awarded annually for the best paper published by the Institution on the subject of safety by a member under the age of 30.