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William Craig Reynolds
William Craig Reynolds
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While following his muse, he might have repeatedly reinvented the proverbial wheel, but he also found novel and exciting ideas and designs that enriched the field of engineering and inspired the people around him. He was a true believer in the familiar maxim, "If you want something done right, you had better do it yourself." Not a natural delegator and an advocate of hands-on problem solving, he usually found himself immersed in a variety of projects.
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His program for chemical equilibrium analysis, STANJAN, for example, is used at more than 100 universities in the United States and around the world. In 1971, he and Joel Ferziger initiated the highly successful turbulence simulation program at Stanford.
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He played the trumpet and arranged music for his own and other dance bands while a student at Stanford and enjoyed jazz concerts throughout his life. After his official retirement in 2000, even while he was still active in academic life, he took up music again, playing trumpet and arranging music for an amateur big band group.
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