June 16, 1999

In the year ending May 31, 1999, the committee has the following activities:

1. With the help of a few members, six special sessions were organized for the 1999 Engineering Mechanics Conference at Johns Hopkins University. They were: three sessions on Fluid Mechanics (thanks to the effort of Michelle Teng, Keh-Han Wang, and Song-Ping Zhu), and three sessions on Boundary Element Methods (Alex Cheng). The Boundary Element sessions were co-organized with the Dynamics Committee (Gary Dargush and Manoj Chopra).
2. In collaboration with the Turbulence Committee, a special issue of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics on Environmental Fluid Mechanics will be published in July 1999. Guest editors from the Fluids Committee are: Michelle Teng, Hayley Shen and Keh-Han Wang.
3. A task committee is formed to edit a book on Environmental Fluid Mechanics to be published by ASCE Press. The editors are Hayley Shen, Alex Cheng, Keh-Han Wang, and Michelle Teng. Fifteen chapters have been scheduled. The expected publication date is in 2000.
4. Alex Cheng replaced Hayley Shen as the Chair of the Committee, and also assumed the duty as Associate Editor of Journal of Engineering Mechanics since October 1, 1998.
5. Since October 1998, the Fluid Committee received 22 manuscripts for review for the Journal of Engineering Mechanics. The statistics is:

• Accepted: 3
• Declined: 4
• Withdrew: 1
• Under review: 14

6. The committee has been slightly expanded. It now has 17 members, of which six are new members. The Granular Flow subcommittee has 8 members.
7. The committee has a Web page located at:

   http://www.ce.udel.edu/faculty/cheng/asce/fluids.html