Friedrich Hermann Busse

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Friedrich Hermann Busse (born September 30, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German physicist who deals with hydrodynamics .

Life

Busse studied from 1956 at the Georg August University of Göttingen and from 1958 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he received his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1962. After that he was an assistant there. In 1965 he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (as a Research Associate in the Faculty of Mathematics) and in 1966 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as an Associate Research Geophysicist. After an interim stay at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich from 1967 to 1970 , he returned to UCLA in 1970 as an associate professor. In 1973 he received a full professor there. In 1975/76 he was visiting professor at the University of Karlsruhe . From 1984 he was a professor at the University of Bayreuth , where he retired in 2001. At the University of Bayreuth he was a co-founder of the research focus on nonlinear dynamics. Since 1984 he has been Professor in Residence at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Department of Earth and Space Sciences at UCLA.

Busse dealt theoretically and experimentally with the dynamo theory of the formation of magnetic fields in planets such as the earth and carried out experiments with rotating liquid spheres with convection in this context. His hydro-magnetic model predicted convection in columns parallel to the axis of rotation.

Stability areas in the space of the parameters and the wave number for periodic patterns in dynamic systems (with bifurcations and other instabilities at the edge) are referred to as a bus balloon .

In 1972/73 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988), the German Geophysical Society and the National Academy of Sciences (1993). He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Physical Society . In 1998 he received the Emil Wiechert Medal of the German Physical Society . In 2000 he received the American Physical Society's hydrodynamics award . In 2002 he received the Lewis Fry Richardson Medal from the European Geophysical Society. He is co-editor of Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics. In 2008 he received the hydrodynamics price of the European Mechanics Society.

Fonts

  • Busse Convective flows in rapidly rotating spheres and their dynamo action , Physics of Fluids, Vol. 14, 2002, pp. 1301-1314
  • Busse Thermal instabilities in rapidly rotating systems , Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 44, 1970, pp. 441-460
  • Busse, Carrigan Laboratory simulation of thermal convection in rotating planets and stars , Science, Volume 191, 1976, p. 81
  • Busse A model of the Geodynamo , Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 42, 1975, pp. 437-459
  • Busse Magnetohydrodynamics of the Earth's Dynamo , Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics , Vol. 10, 1978, pp. 435-462
  • Busse, Carrigan An experimental and theoretical investigation of the onset of convection in rotating spherical shells , Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 126, 1983, pp. 287-305
  • Busse, Carrigan: Convection in rapidly rotating spherical fluid shells , Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 8, 1977, pp. 17-44
  • Busse The Generation of the Earth's Magnetic Field, 1,2, Physikalische Blätter, Volume 32, October 1976, 436-444, Online , Part 2, November 1976, 489-498, Online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ idw-online.de: The "Busse-Balloon" and many outstanding results in fluid dynamics , accessed on February 15, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Busse, Friedrich Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin