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Boris Stock Award Recipients

Kevin McGrattan edited this page May 12, 2022 · 41 revisions

The Boris Stock Award is an informal award that recognizes an important contribution or bug report from the FDS and Smokeview user community. It is a way for us to say "thanks" to our users for taking the time to critically evaluate the code and their results.

Boris is an engineer at BFT Cognos GmbH. He is renowned for doing his homework and simplifying the input files he submits to the Issues website. When a bug report comes in from Boris it gets our attention. We have confidence that he has taken the time to check his inputs and provide only the essential aspects of the problem.

In 2010, Boris submitted such a bug report #996, then to the Google Code Issue Tracker. This bug showed conclusively, and in a very simple demonstration, that FDS had a problem with conservation of thermal energy in a compartment fire scenario with OPEN vents as convective flow boundaries. The solution to this problem became the basis for the Energy_Budget verification test series. For this contribution (by no means his last), we give the inaugural award in his name.

Award Recipients

Year Recipient Issue
2010 Boris Stock #996
2011 Elizabeth Blanchard #1303
2012 Simon Ham #1743
2013 Choon-Bum Choi #1817
2014 Dan Swenson #2261
2015 Eric Mueller #2418
2016 Caroline Faurie #3930
2017 Timo Korhonen #5570
2018 TopiR #6484
2019 jutrasi #7588
2020 Mathieu Suzanne #8210
2021 Timo Jokinen #9951 and #10101

2022 nominees: Kristian (Issue #10225), Ruggero Poletto (Issue #9974), Eric Mueller (Issue #10573)

2021 nominees: H-Boehmer (Issue #9485), Marc Fehling (Issue #9468), A-Milford (Issue 9504), Timo Jokinen (Issues #9951 and #10101)

2020 nominees: Richard O'Konski (Issue #8001), Mathieu Suzanne (Issue #8210), Morteza Haghighi (Issue #8986)

2019 nominees: Katia Markus (Issue #7561), jutrasi (Issue #7588)

2018 nominees: Bjarne Husted (OpenMPI 3.0.0 memory leak), Herbert Tau (Issue #6047), Matthew Bilson (Issue #6416), TopiR (Issue #6484), johodges (Issue #6848)

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