Milton Denman Van Dyke ( August 1, 1922 , Chicago - May 10, 2010 , Stanford (California) ) - a scientist in the field of fluid and gas mechanics and applied mathematics.
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 Milton Van Dyke (right), L. I. Sedov (center) and G. I. Barenblatt at the Institute of Mechanics of Moscow State University | |
| Date of Birth | August 1, 1922 |
| Place of Birth | Chicago , USA |
| Date of death | May 10, 2010 (87 years old) |
| Place of death | Stanford (California) , USA |
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| Scientific field | mechanic a |
| Place of work | Stanford University |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
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| Awards and prizes | Otto Laporte Award |
Professor at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University . Known for his studies in hydrodynamics, especially for asymptotic methods for calculating fluid and gas flows. His often cited book, The Fluid and Gas Flow Album, is a collection of about 400 black-and-white photographs of the flow visualization in an experiment, sent at his request by researchers around the world.
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Biography
Grew up in a small town in the western United States . His parents graduated from college, his father taught mechanical engineering. I went to school in Portales , while studying, edited the school newspaper.
He received one of two National Fellowships at Harvard University (1940). He studied technical sciences, in addition, he also found time to do mountain climbing, play a second violin in the school’s orchestra, write plays for Harvard Radio and collaborate in the American Cryptogram Association.
His education at Harvard was accelerated in part due to the entry of the United States into World War II (he was a second-year student). Upon graduation from the University (1943), he was hired by the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics ( Eng. NACA ), later transformed into NASA ( Eng. NASA ), to work at the Ames Laboratory . He was engaged in an experimental study of the problems of high-speed aerodynamics, as the smallest in the research group spent a lot of time inside the pipe. He made an important contribution to understanding aircraft wing designs and also wrote a formally anonymous report on compressible flows, which is one of the most commonly used NACA publications.
After the war ended, he won a scholarship from the National Research Council for training in aeronautics and applied mathematics at the California Institute of Technology . He entered the institute in 1946 and received a master's degree (1947) and a doctorate (1949). Supervisor Lagerstrom, dissertation " A Study Of Second-Order Supersonic Flow ." Another year he conducted research there, then returned to the Ames laboratory (1950).
In 1954-1955, under the Fulbright program, he interned in Cambridge with George Betchelor . Visiting professor at the University of Paris in 1958-1959.
According to Leonard Schwartz, Van Dyke made a great contribution to the successful implementation of the Apollo American lunar program by performing theoretical calculations of the motion of spacecraft during their entry into the atmosphere.
In 1959, he accepted the offer to move to Stanford University to organize an aeronautics department. He was engaged in teaching, developed special courses for students, and when they were published, he entered into an agreement with the publishing house that the cost of a sheet of a book should not exceed three cents, and that the whole book should be seven dollars and the book would be accessible to a large number of students. In 1974, Van Dyke organized his own publishing house, Parabolic Press, and republished his book Perturbation Methods in Fluid Mechanics , selling it for $ 7 until his death.
He advised many students and graduate students, paying attention to each of them. Schwartz recalled: “Milton is very closely following the work of each of his students. ... It seemed as if he was always in his office, and I do not remember to ever make an appointment to see him. " At the same time, Van Dyke was not mentioned in the students' works as a co-author. Under his leadership, 33 doctoral and 5 engineering dissertations were defended.
In 1958, at the kiosk in Paris, he discovered the Atlas des phénomènes optiques, a collection of black and white photographs from experimental studies. This inspired Van Dyke's dream of publishing a similar collection of photographs of fluid motion. In 1982, he prepared the Fluid Motion Album (with his wife Sylvia), published by Parabolic Press. The album included 400 images of interest to both the general reader and scientists. It sold more than 40,000 copies of the album, translated into Russian.
Together with Bill Sears, he founded the annual Review of Fluid Mechanics in 1969, and was the editor of the review until 2000.
Since 1992, retired, lived on the Stanford campus until his death.
Family
Wife - Sylvia Jane Agad Adams, member of the American National Academy of Engineering since 1976. Sons - Russell, Eric, Christopher, Brooke and Byron. Daughter is Nina.
Bibliography
- Perturbation methods in fluid mechanics . per. from English V. A. Smirnova; under the editorship of A.A. Nikolsky . M .: World. 1967.310 s.
- Album of the flow of liquid and gas Compilation and author's text M. Van Dyke Translated from English by L. V. Sokolovskaya. Edited by G.I. Barenblatt and V.P. Shidlovsky. Moscow, Mir, 1986. [1]