John W. Miles

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John Wilder Miles (born December 1, 1920 in Cincinnati , † October 20, 2008 in Santa Barbara (California) ) was an American engineering scientist who dealt with hydrodynamics.

Miles graduated from Caltech with a bachelor's degree in 1942, a master's degree in 1943 and a doctorate in electrical engineering in 1944. During World War II he was at the Radiation Laboratory at MIT and from 1944-45 at Lockheed Aircraft. In 1945 he became an assistant professor and later professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (as an engineer and from 1955 also for geophysics). From 1965 he was at the University of California, San Diego and at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography .

In 1951 he was a Fulbright scholar at the University of New Zealand, 1952 visiting professor at the University of London, 1962 to 1964 at the Australian National University and 1969 as a Fulbright scholar in Cambridge.

In 1958/58 and 1968/69 he was a Guggenheim Fellow .

He deals with geophysical hydrodynamics, for example the interaction of wind with waves.

He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1973), the National Academy of Sciences (since 1979) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geophysical Union .

In 1982 he received the Timoshenko Medal and in 1983 the Otto Laporte Prize .

From 1966 he was Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

Fonts

  • On the generation of surface waves by shear flows , Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 3, 1957, pp. 185-204, Part 2, Volume 16, 1963, pp. 209-227
  • Harbor Seiching , Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 6, 1974, pp. 17-33
  • On Hamilton's principle for surface waves , Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 83, 1977, pp. 153-158
  • Solitary waves , Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 12, 1980, pp. 11-43
  • with D. Henderson Parametrically forced surface waves , Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 22, 1990, pp. 143-165

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Miles, John W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miles, John Wilder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 2008
Place of death Santa Barbara (California)