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TONY MAXWORTHY
TONY MAXWORTHY
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Joining the University of Southern California in 1967, he rose to the rank of professor of aerospace engineering in 1970, was named Smith International Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and chaired the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 1979 to 1989. He received a number of accolades in recognition of his many contributions: He was a life fellow of Clare Hall at the Material for this tribute was also provided by Larry Redekopp and Geoff Spedding.
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He followed Einstein's exhortation to "make it as simple as possible, but not simpler than that." His close colleague Geoff Spedding wrote: "He worked on the fluid mechanics of almost everything, it seemed, from microscale processes in immiscible fluids and jets, to the planetary scales of oceans and atmospheres on earth and also on Jupiter, where he uncovered the dynamics of the Great Red Spot." Tony explored flows ranging from the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to the emptying of champagne from a bottle to the aerodynamics of insects; slow creeping motions, fluid dynamics of inkjet printers, sonic booms, volcanoes, and flows in the Jovian atmosphere; bubbles and drops, the motion of immiscible and miscible fronts in porous media, the motion of fronts in directional solidification of alloys and in crystal growth, and combustion. He explored fluid mechanical phenomena described by the broadest array of dimensionless parameters, and he did so in apparatuses that, for the most part, he conceived, designed, and assembled -- and then he conducted the preponderance of the experiments with his own hands.
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His experimental platforms have been replicated in a number of laboratories, and he had a very influential role, for example, in the construction of the world's largest rotating table, in the Coriolis facility in Grenoble, France, for simulating geophysical fluid dynamical phenomena. His long-time collaborator and colleague Larry Redekopp says: "It always seemed to me that Tony thought in ‘vorticity space' -- he always saw a fluid flow from the standpoint of its vortical structure; he ‘thought' in vector space, and then he formed the essential vector balances intuitively at teraflop speed.
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His presence helped recruit or influence the recruitment of the likes of Larry Redekopp, Chi Ming Ho (now at UCLA) , Juan Lasheras (now at UCSD)
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He was a gentle and peaceful man, easy to live with, and he went as he lived -- peacefully -- leaving his family and friends in deep sorrow. Tony is survived by Anna, daughters Kirsten Neville and Kara Dotson, stepdaughters Dominique Naylon and Dana Parks, brother Gary Maxworthy, and seven grandchildren.
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