Hunter Rouse

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Hunter Rouse (born March 29, 1906 in Toledo (Ohio) , † October 16, 1996 in Sun City (Arizona) ) was an American engineer who worked in the field of hydrodynamics and hydraulics. For many years he was director of the Iowa Center for Hydraulic Research (IIHR) at the University of Iowa and dean of the College of Engineering there.

Life

Rouse studied civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1929 and (after stays abroad at hydraulic laboratories in Germany, including Karlsruhe) made his master's degree in 1932. He was then an instructor at MIT, then at Columbia University and, from 1936, assistant professor of hydrodynamics at Caltech , where, in addition to experiments on waterways, he also dealt with sedimentation processes. In 1939 he became a professor at Iowa State University. In 1944 he became director of the IIHR and in 1966 dean of the engineering faculty, which he remained until 1972. In 1976 he retired and moved to Arizona, but held summer courses at Colorado State University well into old age and occasionally taught at Arizona State University.

He is known in the USA for a rational justification of hydraulics through hydrodynamic theory, which is reflected in several popular textbooks. He has also made several educational films on hydraulics. He also wrote a history of hydraulics.

In 1991 he received the John Fritz Medal of the American Association of Engineering Societies and in 1963 the Von Karman Medal . In 1975 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Karlsruhe. In 1979 a series of lectures by the ASCE was named after him and in 1980 he received the ASCE's History and Heritage Award. In 1952/53 he was a Fulbright Research Scholar. He was an honorary member of ASCE (1973), ASME (1967) and the International Association for Hydraulic Research (1985).

He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1966) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1958).

He was married to Dorothee Hüsmert, of German descent, and had two sons and a daughter with her. His son Richard H. Rouse is a medievalist .

Fonts

  • Fluid mechanics for hydraulic engineers , 1938, Reprint Dover 1961
  • Elementary mechanics of fluids , New York, Wiley, London, Chapman and Hall 1946
  • with JW Howe Basic mechanics of fluids , Wiley 1953
  • with Simon Ince History of hydraulics , Dover 1957, 1963
  • Publisher Advanced Mechanics of Fluids , Wiley 1959
  • Hydraulics, mechanics of fluids, engineering education: selected writings of Hunter Rouse , Dover 1971 (Eds. John F. Kennedy, Enzo O. Macagno)
  • Hydraulics in the United States 1776-1976 , Institute of Hydraulic Research 1976

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Films by Hunter Rouse
  2. ↑ And wrote an overview of the collection of historical hydraulics books at the University of Iowa, see Highlights in the History of Hydraulics
personal data
SURNAME Rouse, Hunter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mechanical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Toledo (Ohio)
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1996
Place of death Sun City (Arizona)