Katherine Prestridge

Katherine Prestridge
Education	Princeton University
Alma mater	University of California, San Diego
Scientific career
Institutions	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Thesis	(1998)

Katherine P. Prestridge is an American scientist investigating fluids in extreme environments at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Biography

Prestridge completed her PhD in 1998 at University of California, San Diego, following a Bachelors of Science in aerospace engineering at Princeton University in 1992. ^{[1] [2]} She joined Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1998 and formed the Extreme Fluids Team in 2008. ^[3]

Prestridge joined Editorial Advisory Board of the Experiments in Fluids journal in 2015. ^[4] She was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2019. ^[5]

Awards and honours

• 2019 – Fellow of the American Physical Society for "thoughtfully designed experiments on shock-driven mixing and turbulence, and for developing advanced flow diagnostics that bring insights to the understanding of mixing in extreme flows." ^[5]

Selected publications

• Tomkins, C.; Kumar, S.; Orlicz, G.; Prestridge, K. (25 September 2008). "An experimental investigation of mixing mechanisms in shock-accelerated flow". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 611: 131–150. Bibcode:2008JFM...611..131T. doi:10.1017/S0022112008002723. S2CID   33609356.
• Balakumar, B. J.; Orlicz, G. C.; Tomkins, C. D.; Prestridge, K. P. (1 December 2008). "Simultaneous particle-image velocimetry–planar laser-induced fluorescence measurements of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability growth in a gas curtain with and without reshock". Physics of Fluids. 20 (12): 124103–124103–13. Bibcode:2008PhFl...20l4103B. doi: 10.1063/1.3041705 .
• Balakumar, B. J.; Orlicz, G. C.; Ristorcelli, J. R.; Balasubramanian, S.; Prestridge, K. P.; Tomkins, C. D. (10 April 2012). "Turbulent mixing in a Richtmyer–Meshkov fluid layer after reshock: velocity and density statistics". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 696: 67–93. Bibcode:2012JFM...696...67B. doi:10.1017/jfm.2012.8. S2CID   53677542.

References

1. "Kathy Prestridge biography". www.lanl.gov.
2. Tomkins, C.; Prestridge, K.; Rightley, P.; Vorobieff, P.; Benjamin, R. (September 1, 2002). "Flow morphologies of two shock-accelerated unstable gas cylinders" . Journal of Visualization. 5 (3): 273–283. doi:10.1007/BF03182335. S2CID   123485443 – via Springer Link.
3. "LANL Shock Tube Kathy Prestridge Extreme Fluids Team". www.lanl.gov.
4. "Kathy Prestridge to serve on editorial advisory board of fluid dynamics journal". Los Alamos National Laboratory.
5. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org.

External links

• Katherine Prestridge publications indexed by Google Scholar