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ANATOL ROSHKO
Pages 298-301

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... Roshko was born July 15, 1923, in Bellevue, Alberta, Canada. He received a BSc degree in engineering physics from the University of Alberta in 1945 and, after a brief tour in the Royal Canadian Artillery, came to the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratories at Caltech (GALCIT, now known as the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at Caltech)
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From page 300...
... At the time of his passing, Roshko had been teaching a course at Caltech with his former student and long-time col laborator and friend, Garry Brown of Princeton University. Their first paper together, "On density effects and large struc ture in turbulent mixing layers," was published in 1974 in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and became the most widely cited paper in the journal's history.
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... Several letter writers appreciated that he knew how to ask limited ques tions so that answers could be found and new understanding achieved. One correspondent mentioned that on several occa sions Roshko pointed out that "there are many simple experi ments which have been carried out for as long as 100 years and we still haven't gotten them right, for example, the vortex shedding problem." In another remembrance, Gary Ratekin and the aerodynamics staff at Rocketdyne mentioned that, thanks to Roshko's guidance in understanding the flow in the space shuttle main engine, they created a new duct design for future flights.
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