Rudolf Wille (engineer)

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Rudolf Ludwig Wille (born August 22, 1911 in Kassel , † December 28, 1973 in Berlin ) was a German engineer for fluid dynamics and university professor .

Life

Wille was the son of a cellist with the Kassel Symphony Orchestra. After graduating from high school in Kassel in 1930, he studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich and the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg , where he was promoted to graduate engineer in February 1936. He then worked at Humboldt-Deutz-Motoren AG in Cologne.

In 1939 Wille switched to the Institute for Technical Flow Research at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg under Hermann Föttinger as a scientific assistant . There he became a Dr.-Ing. PhD . His dissertation was entitled "Model tests on the flushing process of the two-stroke internal combustion engine" . In the same year, Wille was appointed chief engineer and conducted various tests on behalf of the German armaments industry.

After the war, Wille, who was appointed associate professor for hydropower machines and turbo machines at the Hermann Föttinger Institute for Fluid Dynamics in 1946, was one of the first teachers at the newly founded Technical University of Berlin and played a key role in its reconstruction. From 1946 to 1948 he was a member of the university's senate. He then spent a year as a British Council Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge .

In 1956, Wille also took over the management of the Institute for Turbulence Research at the German Aviation Research Institute .

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SURNAME Will, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wille, Rudolf Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, expert in flow technology and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1973
Place of death Berlin