John L. Lumley

John Leask Lumley (born November 4, 1930 in Detroit , Michigan , † May 30, 2015 in Ithaca , New York ) was an American engineering scientist who dealt with hydrodynamics , especially turbulence .

Lumley graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1952, received his master's degree in engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1954, and received his doctorate there from Stanley Corrsin in 1957 ( Some Problems Connected with the Motion of Small Particles in Turbulent Fluid ). From 1959 he was Assistant Professor and later Professor at Pennsylvania State University ( Aerospace Engineering ) and from 1977 at Cornell University .

He was a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1975). In 1993 he received the Timoshenko Medal and in 1990 the hydrodynamics price of the American Physical Society . He was a Guggenheim Fellow and multiple visiting professor in France (Aix-Marseille, Ecole Centrale Lyon) and Belgium (Liège, Louvain-la-Neuve). He was an honorary doctor of the École Centrale de Lyon and in 1971 received the medal from the University of Liège . In 1990/91 he was director of the Stanford / NASA Ames Center for Turbulence Research .

Lumley, who grew up in the auto city of Detroit, was a passionate car hobbyist and wrote a memory book about it.

Fonts

• with Hendrik Tennekes A First Course in Turbulence , MIT Press, Cambridge, 1972
• with Philip Holmes , G. Berkooz, Turbulence, Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems and Symmetry , Cambridge University Press 1998
• Engines: An Introduction , Cambridge University Press 1999
• Still Life with Cars: An Automotive Memoir , McFarland 2005
• Stochastic Tools in Turbulence , Dover Publications 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
2. ^ Turbulent fluid flow expert John Lumley dies at 84
3. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project