Frank M. White

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Frank M. White
Born	Frank M. White
Nationality	United States
Education	PhD
Alma mater	Georgia Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Frank M. White is an American Engineer and Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at the University of Rhode Island particularly well known for his fluid dynamics work. He is a professor in the Mechanical Engineering department as well as the Ocean Engineering department - which he helped found in 1966 as the first department of Ocean Engineering in the United States. He is the author of the popular engineering textbook "Fluid Mechanics" as well as three other textbooks on the topics of fluid mechanics and heat transfer.^[1]

He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was editor-in-chief of the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering from 1979 until in 1991 he became chairman of the ASME Publication Committee and of the Board of Editors. In 1991 he also received the ASME Fluids Engineering Award.^[1]

Publications

Fluid Mechanics (1998–2015)
Viscous Fluid Flow (1991–2011)
Heat and Mass Transfer (1988)
Heat Transfer (1983)

References

1 2 White, Frank M. (2011), Fluid Dynamics 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 978-0-07-352934-9

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