John Wehausen
John Vrooman Wehausen (born September 23, 1913 in Duluth , Minnesota , † October 6, 2005 ) was an American applied mathematician who was a leading expert in applied hydrodynamics and specifically in marine hydrodynamics. He was a professor of engineering at the University of California at Berkeley .
Wehausen was the son of an engineer and grew up in a suburb of Chicago . He studied at the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in 1934 and a master's degree in physics in 1935. In 1938 he received his doctorate there under Theophil Henry Hildebrandt . From 1937 he was an instructor at Brown University , then taught at Columbia University and the University of Missouri , before working for the US Navy in operations research during World War II . While working as a mathematician at the US Navy's David Taylor Model Basin (DTMB) for three years, he became interested in marine hydrodynamics under the influence of Georg P. Weinblum . From 1956 to 1984 he was a professor in Berkeley, where in 1958 he helped to build up the shipbuilding department ( Naval Architecture ).
In 1984 he received the Davidson Medal of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, of which he was a Fellow. He was a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering and an honorary doctorate in Grenoble.
Fonts
- with Edmund V. Laitone: Surface waves , in Siegfried Flügge , Clifford Truesdell : Handbuch der Physik , Volume 9, 1960
- The motion of floating bodies , Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 3, 1971, pp. 237-268
- The wave resistance of ships , Advances in Applied Mechanics, Volume 13, 1973, pp. 93-245
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| SURNAME | Wehausen, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wehausen, John Vrooman (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duluth , Minnesota |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 2005 |