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Pages 168-173

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... Ames Research Center and consulting professor at Stanford University, died on May 1, 1999. He was a gentle and quiet man who provided many significant advances in aerodynamics and fluid mechanics through his deep knowledge of mathematics and computers, his remarkable inventiveness, his dogged diligence, and his persuasive technical leadership.
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From page 170...
... Hans Mark, NASA Ames, and Dean Chapman, division chief for thermo- and gas-dynamics, wisely decided to form a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Branch with Harvard as its chief,
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From page 171...
... This focus on the fundamental issue of"getting the physics right," which is most difficult in turbulent flows, continues to pay handsome dividends even today in our growing knowledge of turbulent flows through the joint NASA ArnesStanford Center for Turbulence Research. Despite their struggles with the Illiac IV, the branch, and soon the center were focused on procuring a special-purpose computer for fluid dynamic flows.
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... Ring in 1996. All who knew Harvard admired his gentle ways, his extraordinary mathematical talents, his kind humor, and his quiet but effective leadership.
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