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FRANK E. MARBLE
FRANK E. MARBLE
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He also made outstanding contributions to aerospace engineering through his gifted teaching and insightful training of legions of graduate students at the California Institute of Technology and through his example of courage and loyalty during the McCarthy era and long afterward. Frank was born July 21, 1918, in Cleveland, Ohio, and from a young age developed a passion for two things that remained with him throughout his life: airplanes and music.
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As he developed his technical gifts and interests, he dreamed of pursuing graduate studies at Caltech with the eminent fluid mechanician Theodore von Kármán, but the outbreak of World War II altered his plans temporarily. After completing his master's degree in applied mechanics at Case (1942)
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His work on exploring ramjet engines led to a seminal analytical approach for predicting premixed flame stability in shear layers, developed with one of his earliest doctoral students, Tom Adamson.2 Known as the MarbleAdamson problem, its use of activation energy asymptotics became a model for scores of researchers exploring both premixed and nonpremixed flame stabilization. Frank's work at JPL and Caltech also involved experiments and analysis of the often catastrophic "screech" phenomenon 1 Marble FE.
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These experiences, in addition to his funded research from the US government, led to the exploration of numerous propulsion problems for which Frank discovered new underlying physical phenomena. He made seminal contributions in the analysis of dusty gases,5 relevant to particulate flows in solid rocket motor nozzles; acoustic attenuation by liquid droplets,6 relevant to noise problems in air-breathing engines; a coherent flame model for the analysis of turbulent combustion,7 which became the foundation of contemporary flamelet modeling; flame-vortex interactions,8 relevant to turbulent premixed and nonpremixed combustion instabilities; and shock-induced mixing9 and combustion phenomena, relevant to supersonic combustion ramjets.
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As an expression of gratitude, generations of his graduate students endowed both the Frank and Ora Lee Marble Professorial Chair and the Marble Graduate Fellowship at Caltech in 2012 and 2013, respectively. Beyond the Caltech campus, he contributed to activities of the National Research Council, serving on the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (1991–97)
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Eventually, the Tsiens returned to China, where Tsien became the father of the Chinese rocketry program, including development of what has become today's Long March rocket vehicle. Frank's courage and loyalty to his friend and colleague during this difficult time are among his greatest legacies.
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