William S. Saric

William Samuel Saric (born September 28, 1940 in Chicago ) is an American engineer who deals with hydrodynamics and aerodynamics .

Saric graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree and a doctorate in mechanics in 1968. He also received a master's degree from the University of New Mexico (1965). From 1963 to 1966 and 1966 to 1975 he was at Sandia National Laboratories . In 1975 he became associate professor and in 1979 professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and 1984 professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Arizona State University . There, and later at Texas A&M, he set up wind tunnel laboratories. From 2005 he was a professor at Texas A&M University (Flight Research Laboratory).

He researches, among other things, theoretically, numerically and experimentally the fluid dynamic boundary layer , its stability, transition to flow and its control, for example in micro-aircraft, aircraft and space gliders in the supersonic and subsonic range.

In 1991/92 he was visiting professor at Tōhoku University .

In 1993 he received the GI Taylor Medal and in 2003 the Fluid Dynamics Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He is a Fellow of the AIAA, the American Physical Society, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the National Academy of Engineering ( for contributions to basic understanding and control of shear flow and interface transition ).

In 1976 and 1981 he was a visiting scholar at the Soviet Academy of Sciences .

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1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004