Chia Shun Yih

Chia-Shun Yih (* 1918 in Guiyang , Guizhou , China , † April 25, 1997 near Tokyo ) was an American engineering scientist who dealt with hydrodynamics .

Life

Yih began his studies during the turmoil of the Japanese occupation in China at the national central university evacuated to the hinterland (originally in Nanjing) and graduated in 1941. He then worked in the hydraulic engineering laboratory in Guanxian, the bridge construction office in Guizhou and at the University of Guizhou. In 1945 he went as one of 42 students selected through exams across China to the United States at the University of Iowa , where he received his doctorate in 1948. In 1949 he married - the marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter. He taught at various universities in the United States and France before joining the University of Michigan as an associate professor in 1956 , where he became professor of hydrodynamics in 1958. In 1967 he became Stephen P. Timoshenko Distinguished University Professor there and in 1974 he gave the Henry Russel Lecture. In 1988 he retired, but remained scientifically active.

In 1985 he received the hydrodynamics prize of the American Physical Society , in 1989 the Otto Laporte Prize and in 1981 the Von Karman Medal . He also received the Humboldt Research Prize (1977/78) and was a Guggenheim Fellow (1964). He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the National Academy of Engineering and a member of the Academia Sinica .

He spoke fluent German and French. As a hobby he was a seal artist.

Fonts

• Dynamics of nonhomogeneous fluids, Macmillan 1960 (new edition as: Stratified Flows, 2nd edition, Academic Press 1980)
• Fluid Mechanics: a concise introduction to the theory, McGraw Hill 1969 (revised West River Press, Ann Arbor 1977)

Web links

• Obituary at the University of Michigan
• Obituary in the New York Times 1997

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Suffering from a heart attack while flying from Detroit to Taiwan