Leslie Howarth

Leslie Howarth (born May 23, 1911 in Bacup, Lancashire , † September 22, 2001 ) was a British mathematician who dealt with hydrodynamics and aerodynamics .

Howarth studied with Sydney Goldstein at the University of Manchester and then at Cambridge University (Caius and Gonville College) with a bachelor's degree in 1933 and a doctorate under Goldstein in 1936. He was then a lecturer at King's College in Cambridge. In 1937/38 he was with Theodore von Kármán at Caltech . During the Second World War he worked first in ballistics and from 1942 on at the Armament Research Department. After the war he was first a lecturer at St. John's College in Cambridge (where Abdus Salam was one of his students) and from 1949 professor of applied mathematics at the University of Bristol . In 1964 he became Henry Overton Wills Professor and Head of the Mathematics Faculty. 1957 to 1960 he was dean of the Faculty of Science. In 1976 he retired.

He dealt in particular with boundary layer theory . A work is known with von Karman 1938 on isotropic turbulence following GI Taylor .

In 1935 he received the Smith Prize and in 1951 the Adams Prize . In 1950 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1955 he became OBE .

In 1934 he married Eva Priestley, with whom he had two sons.

Keith Stewartson is one of his PhD students .

Fonts

• Laminar Boundary Layers, in Flügge, Truesdell (Ed.) Handbook of Physics VIII / 1, Fluid Mechanics 1, Springer Verlag 1959
• Editor and co-author: Modern developments in fluid dynamics: high speed flow, Clarendon Press 1953 (he also contributed to earlier volumes in the series, publisher Sydney Goldstein)

Web links

• Biographical Memoirs Fellows Royal Society (PDF; 280 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Howarth, from Karman On the statistical theory of isotropic turbulence , Proc. Roy. Soc. A, Volume 164, 1938, pp. 192-215