Gary Leal
Leslie Gary Leal (born March 18, 1943 in Bellingham , Washington ) is an American engineer who works in hydrodynamics . He is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Leal studied chemical engineering at the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in 1965 and at Stanford University with a master's degree in 1968 and a doctorate with Andreas Acrivos in 1969. In 1970 he became an assistant professor at Caltech , where he was a full professor as a chemical engineer in 1978 and was Chevron Distinguished Professor from 1986 to 1989 . From 1989 he was a professor at UCSB.
Among other things, he was visiting professor at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge . He deals with the hydrodynamics of complex fluids (such as polymers, liquid crystals, emulsions) including numerical simulation and studied, among other things, drop deformation.
In 2002 he received the American Physical Society's Hydrodynamics Award , the Allan Colburn Award in 1978 and the Bingham Medal in 2001 . For 2015 he was awarded the GI Taylor Medal . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the National Academy of Engineering (1987), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011). In 1976 he was a Guggenheim Fellow in Cambridge.
Leal has been married since 1965 and has three children.
Fonts
- Laminar Flow and Convective Transport Processes. Butterworth-Heinemann, Stoneham, Massachusetts, 1992
- Advanced Transport Phenomena: Fluid Mechanics and Convective Transport Processes. Cambridge University Press, 2007
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leal, Gary |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leal, Leslie Gary (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bellingham , Washington |