Meiburg was cited by the APS as elected "for the development and use of computer codes to elucidate significant fluid dynamical problems, including: molecular dynamics, interfacial, thermocapillary, particle-laden and porous-media flows, wakes, rotating jets and gravity currents."
Meiburg graduated from the Univesity of Karlsruhe, Germany, in Mechanical Engineering, where he also received his PhD. He was previously professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Southern California and assistant professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University.
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