Stephen H. Davis

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Stephen Howard Davis (born September 7, 1939 in New York City ) is an American applied mathematician and engineering scientist who deals with hydrodynamics and materials science.

He studied at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1960, a master's degree in mathematics in 1962 and a doctorate under Lee Aaron Segel in 1964 ( The effect of property variations and surface curvature on Benard convection ). From 1964 to 1966 he was a research mathematician at RAND Corporation and from 1966 to 1968 lecturer in applied mathematics at Imperial College London . In 1968 he became an assistant professor of mechanics and later professor at Johns Hopkins University . From 1979 he was a professor at Northwestern University , where he is Walter P. Murphy Professor of Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics .

In hydrodynamics he dealt with instabilities due to variations in surface tension and cracks in thin films, droplet distribution, metallic foams, transition from liquid to solid, hydrodynamics of blood vessels.

From 1969 to 1989 he was assistant and then associate editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and its editor from 2000 to 2009. Since 1999 he has been editor of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics .

He received the GI Taylor Medal in 2001 and the American Physical Society's Hydrodynamics Award in 1994 . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering . In 2004 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 2017 an external member of the Academia Europaea . He received the Humboldt Research Award .

Fonts

  • with Alexander Oron, S. George Bankoff: Long-scale evolution of thin liquid films, Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 69, 1997, pp. 931-980
  • Theory of Solidification, Cambridge University Press 2001

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Directory of Members: Stephen Davis. Academia Europaea, accessed on January 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Davis, Stephen H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davis, Stephen Howard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City