William Craig Reynolds
| William C. Reynolds | |
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| Born |
March 16, 1933 Berkeley, California |
| Died |
January 3, 2004 Los Altos, California |
| Fields | Fluid mechanics |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor |
William M. Kays[1] Stephen J. Kline[1] |
| Doctoral students |
Fazle Hussain Parviz Moin |
| Notable awards | Otto Laporte Award (1992) |
William Craig Reynolds was a fluid physicist and mechanical engineer who specialized in turbulent flow and computational fluid dynamics. He completed his undergraduate degrees, as well as his doctorate, all at Stanford University, in 1954, 1955, and 1957, respectively, after which he joined the faculty.[2] He was chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Department from 1972 to 1982 and again from 1989 to 1992. Reynolds was one of the pioneers in Large eddy simulation for fluid modeling.[2] He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979. He won the Fluid Engineering Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1989 and the Otto Laporte Award by the American Physical Society in 1992.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Reynolds, William Craig (September 1957). "Ph.D Dissertation: Heat Transfer in the Turbulent Incompressible Boundary Layer with Constant and Variable Wall Temperature". Stanford University. pp. i–iii.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Moin, P. (2007), "William C. Reynolds", Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering 11: 266–269
Further reading
- Bradshaw, Peter (2005), "William Craig Reynolds", Physics Today 58 (4): 85–86, Bibcode:2005PhT....58R..85B, doi:10.1063/1.1955501
- Reynolds, W.C. (1976), "Computation of Turbulent Flows", Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 8: 183–208, Bibcode:1976AnRFM...8..183R, doi:10.1146/annurev.fl.08.010176.001151
External links
- Obituary from Stanford University, January 13, 2004, retrieved 2012-12-23
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