John L. Lumley
{{Infobox scientist
| name = John Leask Lumley
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| birth_date= {{birth date|1930|11|4}}
| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan
| death_date = {{death date and age|2015|05|30|1930|11|4}}
| death_place = Ithaca, New York
| residence =
| alma_mater =Johns Hopkins University
| doctoral_advisor =Stanley Corrsin
| doctoral_students = William K. George
| known_for = Fluid turbulence
| footnotes =
| field =Fluid dynamics
| work_institution =Pennsylvania State University
Cornell University
| prizes = Fluid Dynamics Prize {{small|(1990)}}
| religion =
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John Leask Lumley (4 November 1930 – 30 May 2015) was an American fluid dynamicist and a professor at Cornell University.{{cite web|url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/06/turbulent-fluid-flow-expert-john-lumley-dies-84|title=Turbulent fluid flow expert John Lumley dies at 84|date=12 June 2015|publisher=Cornell Chronicle|accessdate=17 June 2015}}[http://www.mae.cornell.edu/index.cfm/page/fac/lumley.htm John L. Lumley] at Cornell University He is widely known for his research in turbulence{{cite journal |last1=Leibovich |first1=Sidney |last2=Warhaft |first2=Zellman |title=John Leask Lumley: Whither Turbulence? |journal=Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics |date=5 January 2018 |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=1–23 |doi=10.1146/annurev-fluid-122316-044524 |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-fluid-122316-044524 |access-date=27 March 2023 |language=en |issn=0066-4189|doi-access=free }} and is the coauthor of A First Course in Turbulence along with Hendrik Tennekes.
Academic career
Lumley received his M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins University in 1954 and 1957 respectively. His Ph.D. thesis supervisor was Stanley Corrsin. He started his academic career at the Pennsylvania State University where he became Evan Pugh Professor of Aerospace Engineering. He was also in charge of research on turbulence and transition at the Applied Research Laboratory. In 1977 Lumley joined Cornell University where he was the Willis H. Carrier Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Emeritus) until his death in May 2015 of brain cancer.{{cite book|author1-link=Sidney Leibovich |author1=Sidney Leibovich |title=John L. Lumley |year=2017 |url=https://www.nap.edu/read/24773/chapter/36 |publisher=National Academies Press|doi=10.17226/24773 |isbn=978-0-309-45928-0 }}
He was an editor of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics from 1977 to 2002.{{Cite journal|last1=Davis|first1=Stephen H.|last2=Moin|first2=Parviz|date=2018-01-05|title=Introduction|journal=Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics|volume=50|issue=1|pages=v–vi|doi=10.1146/annurev-fl-50-120617-100001|bibcode=2018AnRFM..50D...5D|issn=0066-4189|doi-access=free}}
Honors and awards
Lumley received the 1990 Fluid Dynamics Prize of American Physical Society, "For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of turbulent flow, in particular, the fundamental structure of turbulent shear flows, the effects of drag-reducing additives, and his widely recognized contributions to the statistical theory of turbulence, and for his personal and intellectual leadership in the international fluid dynamics community, including his educational films and books, and his long active devotion to the Division of Fluid Dynamics of The American Physical Society."[http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=John%20L%2E%20Lumley&year=1990 1990 Fluid Dynamics Prize Recipient] He has also received several other awards, including:
- Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1982[http://www.aiaa.org/tc/fd/past_awards.html Fluid Dynamics Award Past Recipients] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080929204640/http://www.aiaa.org/tc/fd/past_awards.html |date=2008-09-29 }}
- Timoshenko Medal, 1993[http://www.imechanica.org/node/186 1993 Timoshenko Medal Acceptance Speech by John L. Lumley]
- Recipient of two honorary doctorate degrees (honoris causa) from the French University System, in Lyon and in Poitiers.
- Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering
Books authored
- Tennekes, H. and J. L. Lumley, A First Course in Turbulence, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (1972). {{ISBN|978-0262200196}}
- Holmes, P., J. L. Lumley, and G. Berkooz, Turbulence, Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems and Symmetry, Cambridge University Press (1998). {{ISBN|978-0-521-63419-9}}
- Lumley, J. L., Engines: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, (1999). hbk {{ISBN|0-521-64277-9}}; pbk {{ISBN|0-521-64489-5}}
- Lumley, J. L., [https://books.google.com/books?id=aW8_8hqPapYC Still Life with Cars: An Automotive Memoir], McFarland, (2005). {{ISBN|0-7864-2053-7}}
- Lumley, J. L., Stochastic Tools in Turbulence, Dover Publications (2007). {{ISBN|978-0-486-46270-7}}
- Monin, A. S., A. M. Yaglom, and J. L. Lumley, Statistical Fluid Mechanics - vol 1: Mechanics of Turbulence, The MIT Press (1971). {{ISBN|978-0-262-13062-2}}
- Lumley, J. L., H. A. Panofsky, "The Structure of Atmospheric Turbulence", John Wiley & Sons, Inc, New York, NY (1964). {{ISBN|978-0470553657}}
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Category:American fluid dynamicists
Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni
Category:Pennsylvania State University faculty
Category:Cornell University faculty
Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Category:Fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics