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Milton D. Van Dyke 1922-2010
Milton D. Van Dyke 1922-2010
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His father, with a degree from Pennsylvania state University, was a teacher of mechanical engineering, and his mother was a Phi Beta Kappa mathematics graduate of the University of Minnesota. The depression of the 1930s made it difficult for either of them to find satisfactory permanent employment, and the family moved frequently.
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Milton always regarded himself as an engineer rather than a mathematician, and indeed his first assignment was to assist Harvey allen and Walter Vincenti with experimental work in the newly built 1-foot by 3.5-foot transonic wind tunnel. The famous ames compilation of basic information and numerical results for compressible flow (the 70-page NACA report 1135, issued in 1953, and now available online)
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The vacuumtube digital computers of the 1950s did not have the power to calculate the hypersonic flow over a given body directly, and "inverse" methods, in which an assumed shape of the bow shock wave was adjusted until the right body shape appeared, had failed to converge. The problem was assigned to Milton, whose contribution was twofold.
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, which contained much original work, and two other courses, one on symmetry and similitude in fluid mechanics and the other on hypersonic flow theory. His appointment was held jointly in the aeronautics department and the applied mechanics group of the mechanical engineering department.
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Milton had once seen, in a little bookshop on the left Bank in Paris, a beautiful collection of black-and-white photographs from optical research and realized that students of fluid mechanics needed a similar collection. so, many years later, Parabolic Press published An Album of Fluid Motion (1982)
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. as well as receiving several fellowships for research abroad, Milton received the otto laporte award of the american Physical society in 1986 and the fluid dynamics award of the american institute of aeronautics and astronautics in 1997.
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