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John Leask Lumley: whither turbulence? (English) Zbl 1384.76002

Davis, Stephen H. (ed.) et al., Annual review of fluid mechanics. Vol. 50. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews (ISBN 978-0-8243-0750-9/hbk). Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 50, 1-23 (2018).
Summary: John Lumley’s contributions to the theory, modeling, and experiments on turbulent flows played a seminal role in the advancement of our understanding of this subject in the second half of the twentieth century. We discuss John’s career and his personal style, including his love and deep knowledge of vintage wine and vintage cars. His intellectual contributions range from abstract theory to applied engineering. Here we discuss some of his major advances, focusing on second-order modeling, proper orthogonal decomposition, path-breaking experiments, research on geophysical turbulence, and important contributions to the understanding of drag reduction. John Lumley was also an influential teacher whose books and films have molded generations of students. These and other aspects of his professional career are described.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1381.76015].

MSC:

76-03 History of fluid mechanics
76Fxx Turbulence
01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies
01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century
01A61 History of mathematics in the 21st century

Biographic References:

Lumley, John Leask
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