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The Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics (JSFM) turned 40 years old in 2008. To celebrate the 40th anniversary, JSFM organized a one-day conference on 5 September 2008 at Kobe University Centennial Hall. The conference was composed of seven invited lectures: three of them were given by distinguished foreign researchers and four were given by relatively young but internationally active Japanese researchers. At the same time, JSFM planned to dedicate an issue of Fluid Dynamics Research (FDR) to the conference. This special issue, which contains six articles based on the lectures at the conference, is the fruition of the plan.The promising program of the conference and the fact that the second day of the Annual Meeting of JSFM was dedicated to this conference attracted a large audience (215 participants). The conference was indeed very successful, thanks to the outstanding lectures and active participation of the audience. I am sure that the articles in this special section, which cover several important areas in modern fluid dynamics, will also interest the readers of FDR. In particular, it will be a great pleasure to me if young researchers are stimulated and motivated by the articles.As the chair of the one-day conference, I would like to express my thanks to Prof. N D Katopodes, Prof. G J F van Heijst, Prof. S Zaleski, Prof. G Kawahara, Prof. S Takagi and Prof. Y Tsuji for their contributions to this special section. Taking this opportunity, I would also like to thank Prof. S Kida (President of JSFM in 2008), Prof. M Funakoshi (Editor-in-Chief of FDR) and the members of the organizing committee of the conference for their continued support and cooperation. |
