Sigma Xi Research Award, University of Houston, 1999; Sabbatical at Cambridge University, 1992, 1999; Visiting Scholar, Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, Feb. - Mar. 2000; Freeman Scholar, (Bienniel Award of ASME) 1984 Eckart Prize (For outstanding PhD Thesis), Stanford University, 1971.
Elected to four-year term (Vice-Chair, Chair-Elect, Chair, Past-Chair), Division of Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society, 2000 - 2003; Fluid Dynamics Prize Committee, American Physical Society, 1991 - 1993, 2000; Nominating Committee, APS/DFD Vice-Chair 1997 - 1998, Chair 1998 - 1999; Member, Committee on Naval Hydrodynamics and Hydroacoustics, National Research Council 1999 - 2000; Chairman, Fluid Dynamics Award Committee, AIAA, 1999, 2000; Member, 1996-1998, Co-Chair 1998- to date, Scientific Committee, U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; John & Rebecca Moores Scholars Selection Committee, 7996; Asian Fluid Mechanics Committee (Organizes the Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics every two years), 1979 -present; Member, Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee, AIAA, 1997 - to date; Technical Program Chair, 30th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Norfolk, VA, June 1999; Associate Editor, The Physics of Fluids, 1981 - 1984; Associate Editor, Journal of Fluids Engineering, ASME, 1995 - 1998; Board of Editors, Sadhana; Proceedings of Indian Academy of Science (Science & Engg.) 1996 - to date; Editorial Advisory Board, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science (International Journal of Experimental Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, and Fluid Mechanics), Elsevier Scientific Publishing, 1987 - to date; Editorial Advisory Board, Thermophysics and Aeromechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 1992 - to date.
Schoppa, W. and Hussain, F. "Coherent Structure Dynamics in Near-Wall Turbulence", Fluid Dyn. Res., 26, pp. 119 - 139, 2000; Shtern, V. & Hussain, F. "Collapse, Symmetry Breaking and Hysteresis in Swirling Flows", Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech., 31, pp. 537 - 566, 1999; Schoppa, W. and Hussain, F. "A large scale control strategy for drag reduction in turbulent boundary layers, Phys. Fluids, 10(5), pp. 1049 - 1051, 1998; Shtern, V. and Hussain, F. "Instabilities of conical flows causing steady bifurcations", J. Fluid Mech., 366, pp. 33 - 85, 1998; J. Jeong, F. Hussain, W. Schoppa and J. Kim,, "Coherent Structures Near the Wall of Turbulent Channel Flow," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 332, pp. 185 - 214, 1997; M. Goldshtik and F. Hussain, "The Nature of Inviscid Vortex Breakdown," Physics of Fluids, 92. pp. 263 - 265 1997; G. Broze, S. Narayanan and F. Hussain, "Measuring Spatial Coupling in Inhomogeneous Dynamical Systems," Phys. Rev. E., 55, pp. 4179 - 4186, 1997; S. Narayanan and F. Hussain, "Measurements of Spatiotemporal Dynamics in a Forced Mixing Layer", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 320, pp. 71 - 115, 1996.
"Near-Wall coherent structure: in a turbulent boundary layer: genesis and control," ASME Fluids Engineering Award Lecture, Boston, June 13, 2000; "Vortex Dynamics and Turbulence Physics," Sigr/ia Xi Research Award Lecture, University of Houston, Feb. 19, 2000; "Genesis and Dynamics of Coherent Structures in Near-Wall turbulence, and their Control for Drag Reduction", Workshop on Breakdown to Turbulence, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, Mar. 22-31, 1999; "Core Dynamics Instability of a Vortex in Shear: A Physical-space Cascade Mechanism", Symposium on Turbulence Structure and Vortex Dynamics, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, Mar. 15-19, 1999; "Vortex Dynamics related to Fluid Turbulence", Workshop on Perspectives in the Under-standing of Turbulent Systems, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, Jan. 13-22, 1999.
Member, National Academy of Engineering, (Elected in 2001); Fluids Engineering Award, ASME, 2000; Fluid Dynamics Prize, American Physical Society, 1998; Elected to the Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy, 1997; Inducted into The John Hopkins Society of Scholars, JHU, Baltimore, MD, 1996; Fellow, APS, 1985; ASME, 1989; AIAA, 2001;
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