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JOHN L. LUMLEY
Pages 216-221

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... His interest in statistical physics was piqued by a course taught by Stanislaw Ulam, who was visiting Harvard. John chose to attend Johns Hopkins University for graduate work, primarily (he said)
From page 218...
... He wrote about environmental flows, technological flows, drag reduction, and buoyant plumes, among other applications. In a seminal paper, "The Structure of Inhomogeneous Turbulent Flows," presented at the 1967 Moscow conference on "Atmospheric Turbulence and Radio Wave Propagation," he showed that a particular series representation of any turbulent flow, a "proper orthogonal decomposition," could be found.
From page 219...
... During the Cold War, Soviet scientists had developed turbulence theory and experiment further than their counter­ arts in p the West. John brought their advances to the attention of Western researchers first by editing English translations of the important two-volume treatise Statistical Fluid Mechanics: Mechanics of Turbulence by A.S.
From page 220...
... and American Academy of Mechanics; he was awarded the Timoshenko Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Fluid and Plasmadynamics Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the APS Fluid Dynamics Prize. He also received honorary doctorates from the University of Poitiers and the École Centrale de Lyon.
From page 221...
... John was predeceased by Jane in March 2014. They are survived by their children Katherine Leask Lumley-Sapanski, Jennifer French Lumley, and John Christopher Lumley, and five grandchildren.


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