Antony Jameson

Antony Jameson (2008)

Antony Jameson (* 1934 in Gillingham , Kent ) is a British engineer specializing in aerodynamics and aircraft technology and an applied mathematician.

Jameson was the son of a British officer (Brigadier Oscar Jameson) and grew up as a child partially in India, where his father was stationed. He attended Winchester College on a scholarship in 1948 and served as a lieutenant in the British Army in Malaysia from 1953 to 1955. Back in England he worked briefly at Bristol Aero-Engines in the design department for compressors before studying engineering at Cambridge University (Trinity Hall) with a bachelor's and master's degree in 1958. In 1963 he received a doctorate in magnetohydrodynamics in Cambridge, where he until 1963 was a Research Fellow. In 1962 he was a Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . 1964/65 he worked as an economist for the trade union congress and was then a senior mathematician at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics in Coventry . In 1966 he went to the USA in the aerodynamics department of Grumman Aerospace in New York. There he dealt with the numerical calculation of transonic flow , which he continued from 1972 at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University . In 1972 he became professor of computer science at New York University and in 1980 professor of aircraft technology at Princeton University , from 1982 as James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor . From 1986 to 1988 he was Head of the Applied and Numerical Mathematics program at Princeton. Since 1997 he has been a Thomas V. Jones Professor at Stanford University .

He is known for his work in the numerical fluid mechanics of aircraft, especially in the transition area to supersonic (transonic). The FLO, SYNC and AIRPLANE source codes for numerical fluid mechanics, which are widely used in the aircraft industry, come from him. He developed a number of new methods for solving the Euler equation and the Navier-Stokes equation (with compressible flow) such as a multi-grid method for solving problems of stationary flow and a dual time step method for unsteady flow.

He received the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement in 1980 , the British Royal Aeronautical Society's Gold Medal in 1988, the ASME Spirit of St. Louis Medal in 1995, the Association for Computational Mechanics' Fluid Dynamics Award in 2005, the Elmer A. Sperry Award in 2006 and he is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Paris (2001) and Uppsala (2002).

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1995), the National Academy of Engineering (1997), the Royal Academy of Engineering (2005) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics , whose Fluid Dynamics Award he received in 1993. In 1986 he received an honorary professorship at the Northwest Polytechnic University in Xi'an , China.

literature

• DA Caughey, MM Hafez (Editor) Frontiers in Computational Fluid Dynamics , Wiley 1994 (Commemorative publication for the 60th birthday of Jameson)
• Computational Fluid Dynamics, Volume 5, 1996, Issue 2

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