Change of Journal Editorship

In September 2011, Professor Weatherill took up the position of Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. Consequently, he stepped down as Co-Editor of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids.

Professor Weatherill has given exceptional service to the Journal since he became a Co-Editor in 1998. Throughout his tenure, he has used his unique skills and technical knowledge to support his duties as a Co-Editor and reviewer, always providing clear and well-judged comment. As an advisor to Wiley, he has also provided critical advice on how to improve the Journal and has helped pioneer its transition into the electronic age.

Nigel has made numerous contributions to the community. He has undertaken research visits to many countries, and has published numerous seminal papers on high-speed compressible flows, environmental modeling, and bio-engineering. We thank him for all his hard work and wish him all the success in his new position.

We are also delighted to announce that Professor Rémi Abgrall will take over from Professor Weatherill as the new Co-Editor of the Journal. Rémi is Research Director and Head of the INRIA team-project Bacchus at the University of Bordeaux, France. He is also Professor in the ENSEIRB-MATMECA engineering school of the Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux within the University of Bordeaux. Rémi's scientific interests include the numerical approximation of partial differential equations pertaining to fluid problems, related advanced and parallel computational algorithms, high-performance software, and mesh design and graph partitioning. The current emphasis of his research program is on high-order multidimensional schemes for unstructured meshes and their implementation on hybrid multicore architectures, highly compressible multiphase flows, and Lagrangian hydrodynamics for solids and fluids.

Rémi brings considerable expertise to his role as Co-Editor. He is well respected in the community for his excellence in research and education. His extensive experience in peer review and publishing will bring significant benefits to the Journal. We are delighted that he has accepted this new assignment and look forward to work with him on making the Journal one of the most important journals for numerical methods in fluids.