Katherine Prestridge Explained

Katherine Prestridge
Workplaces:	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Education:	Princeton University
Alma Mater:	University of California, San Diego
Thesis Year:	1998
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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.

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. . An experimental investigation of mixing mechanisms in shock-accelerated flow . Journal of Fluid Mechanics . 25 September 2008 . 611 . 131–150 . 10.1017/S0022112008002723. 2008JFM...611..131T . 33609356 .
• Balakumar . B. J. . Orlicz . G. C. . Tomkins . C. D. . Prestridge . K. P. . 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 . 1 December 2008 . 20 . 12 . 124103–124103–13 . 10.1063/1.3041705. free . 2008PhFl...20l4103B .
• Balakumar . B. J. . Orlicz . G. C. . Ristorcelli . J. R. . Balasubramanian . S. . Prestridge . K. P. . Tomkins . C. D. . Turbulent mixing in a Richtmyer–Meshkov fluid layer after reshock: velocity and density statistics . Journal of Fluid Mechanics . 10 April 2012 . 696 . 67–93 . 10.1017/jfm.2012.8. 2012JFM...696...67B . 53677542 .

Notes and References

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