Parviz Moin
{{Short description|American engineer}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Parviz Moin
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| caption = Moin in 2023
| birth_name = Parviz Valandani
| birth_date = {{b-da|October 23, 1952}}
| birth_place = Tehran, Iran[https://history.aip.org/phn/11607003.html Array of Contemporary American Physicists], American Institute of Physics. Accessed June 1, 2011
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| nationality = {{flag|United States}}
| fields = Mechanical engineering
| workplaces = Stanford University
| alma_mater = University of Minnesota
Stanford University
| doctoral_advisor = William Craig Reynolds
| doctoral_students = Laura Pauley
| known_for = fluid dynamics, turbulent flows, Computational fluid dynamics
| awards = Humboldt Prize
Fluid Dynamics Prize (APS) {{small|(1996)}}
}}
Parviz Moin ({{langx|fa|پرویز معین}} Parviz Mo'in from Tehran, Iran) is a fluid dynamicist. He is the Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.[http://www.stanford.edu/group/fpc/Faculty/Moin.html Parviz Moin] at Stanford University Moin has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited author in engineering.[http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Browse&link2=Results&id=95 ISI Highly Cited Author - Parviz Moin] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070519223724/http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi |date=2007-05-19 }}
Biography
Moin is from Iran, and now lives in California. He received his Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1974, his Master's degree in mathematics and his Master's and Ph.D degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford in 1978. Moin became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1981.{{cite web|title=Parviz Moin|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=0&indiv=try&db=usnatindex_awap&h=5755963|work=U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992 (Indexed in World Archives Project)|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=June 1, 2011|quote=Name: Parviz Moin; Birth Date: 23 Oct 1952; Age at event: 29; Court District: California; Date of Action: 1 Dec 1981}}{{subscription required}} He held the posts of National Research Council Fellow, Staff Scientist and Senior Staff Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. He joined the Stanford faculty in September 1986.
Research
Moin pioneered the use of direct numerical simulation and large eddy simulation techniques for the study of turbulence physics, control and modelling concepts and has written widely on the structure of turbulent shear flows. His current interests include: interaction of turbulent flows and shock waves, aerodynamic noise and hydroacoustics, turbulence control, large eddy simulation and parallel computing.
Moin is the founding director of the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford and Ames.{{cite web |url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Moin&first_nm=Parviz&year=1996 |title=1996 Fluid Dynamics Prize Recipient |work=American Physical Society |year=1996 |accessdate=22 August 2015 }} Established in 1987 as a research consortium between NASA and Stanford, the Center for Turbulence Research is devoted to fundamental studies of turbulent flows.
He served as an Editor of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics from 2002-2024.{{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}}{{cite web |title=CO-EDITORS OF THE ANNUAL REVIEW OF FLUID MECHANICS - VOLUME 53, 2021 |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/db/directory?2021,fluid |website=Annual Reviews |access-date=29 July 2021}}
Awards and honors
Moin has been awarded NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1985),[http://www.aem.umn.edu/info/spotlight/moin51508.shtml AEM spotlight: Parviz Moin honored with OAA from University], University of Minnesota, May 12, 2008. Accessed May 31, 2011 Space Act Award, the Lawrence Sperry Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the Humboldt Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany. Moin is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.[http://news.stanford.edu/pr/97/970226nae.html Four Stanford faculty elected to National Academy of Engineering], Stanford New Service, February 26, 1997. Accessed May 31, 2011 He is the recipient of Fluid Dynamics Prize of APS in 1996.[http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=Parviz%20Moin&year=1996 1996 Fluid Dynamics Prize Recipient], American Physical Society. Accessed May 31, 2011
In 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/may/academy-arts-sciences-050310.html Ten scholars, researchers named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences.] Stanford University News, may 3, 2010. Accessed May 31, 2011{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter M|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterM.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=June 1, 2011}} and in 2011 he was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences.[http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=News_May_3_2011_member_election National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected], United States National Academy of Sciences, May 3, 2011.
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Category:American people of Iranian descent
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Category:Iranian expatriate academics
Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Category:Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
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Category:University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni