David C. Montgomery
David Campbell Montgomery (born March 5, 1936 in Milan (Missouri) ) is an American physicist (theoretical plasma physics and hydrodynamics).
David Montgomery studied physics at the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor's degree in 1956 and at Princeton University with a master's degree (MA) in 1958 and his doctorate in 1959 under Lyman Spitzer (Topics in non-linear plane wave motion in a classical ionized gas ). At that time he was involved in the long top secret Project Matterhorn of a stellarator at Princeton University (1959/60). In 1961/62 he was an instructor at the University of Wisconsin and in 1962 he became an assistant professor at the University of Maryland in College Park. From 1965 he was Associate Professor and from 1970 Professor at the University of Iowa and from 1977 Professor at the College of William and Mary . From 1984 he was professor at Dartmouth College , from 1988 as Eleanor and A. Kelvin Smith Professor and after retiring in 2004 he remained a research professor.
He was a consultant for the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA (1963/64, 1977) and its Langley Research Center, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1962 to 1970) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (from 1977 with interruptions until 1994). 1964/65 he was visiting scholar in Utrecht, 1966 visiting professor at the University of Colorado and 1968 at the University of Alaska, 1983 at the University of Nagoya and from 1998 to 2001 JM Burgers visiting professor at the TU Eindhoven.
Montgomery deals with theoretical plasma physics, statistical mechanics in non-equilibrium, kinetic theory and transport, turbulence, application of maximum entropy methods in hydrodynamics and MHD.
From 1971 to 1973 he was co-editor of Physics of Fluids .
In 1996 he received an honorary doctorate from the TU Eindhoven. In 1969 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .
William Matthaeus is one of his PhD students .
Fonts (selection)
- with DA Tidman: Plasma Kinetic Theory, McGraw Hill 1964
- Theory of the Unmagnetized Plasma, Gordon and Breach 1971
- with JW Bates, HR Lewis: Resistive Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibria , Physics of Plasmas, Volume 4, 1997, p. 1080
- with JW Bates, S. Li: Toroidal vortices in Resistive Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibria , Physics of Fluids, Volume 9, 1997, p. 1188.
- with JW Bates: The geometry and symmetries of magnetohydrodyanmic turbulence: anomalies of spatial periodicity, Phys. of Plasmas, Vol. 6, 1999, p. 2727.
- with PD Mininni, AG Pouquet: Small-scale structures in three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic turbulence , Physical Review Letters, Volume 97, 2006, p. 244503
- with PD Mininni, L. Turner: Hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic computations inside a rotating sphere , New J. Phys., Volume 9, 2007, p. 303
- with PD Mininni: Magnetohydrodynamic activity inside a sphere , Physics of Fluids, Volume 18, 2006, p. 116602
- with Jorge A. Morales, Wouter JT Bos, Kai Schneider: Intrinsic Rotation of Toroidally Confined Magnetohydrodynamics, Physical Review Letters, Volume 109, 2012, p. 175002
- with WH Matthaeus, Wang, S. Servidio: A review of relaxation andstructure in some turbulent plasmas: magnetohydrodynamics and related models , Journal of Turbulence, Volume 13, 2012, pp. 1–36.
- with JA Morales, WJT Bos, K. Schneider: Magnetohydrodynamically generated velocities in confined plasmas , Physics of Plasmas, Volume 22, 2015, pp. 042515-042532
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date of birth American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Academic Tree
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Montgomery, David C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Montgomery, David Campbell |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American plasma physicist and astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan (Missouri) |