John Leask Lumley is a Professor Emeritus, Graduate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University

Cornell University

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. He is widely known for his research in turbulence

Turbulence

In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is a flow regime characterized by chaotic and stochastic property changes. This includes low momentum diffusion, high momentum convection, and rapid variation of pressure and velocity in space and time...

 and is the coauthor of A First Course in Turbulence along with Hendrik Tennekes

Hendrik Tennekes

Hendrik Tennekes was the director of research at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute , and was a Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He is known for his work in the fields of turbulence and multi-modal forecasting...

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Academic career

Lumley received his M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from The Johns Hopkins University in 1954 and 1957 respectively. His Ph.D. thesis supervisor was Stanley Corrsin

Stanley Corrsin

Stanley Corrsin was an American physicist, fluid dynamicist, and Theophilus Halley Smoot Professor of Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. He was known for his contributions in the field of fluid dynamics in general and turbulence in particular. He was a recipient of Fluid Dynamics Prize...

. He started his academic career at the Pennsylvania State University

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 where he became Evan Pugh Professor of Aerospace Engineering. He was also in charge of research on turbulence and transition at the Applied Research Laboratory. In 1977 Lumley joined Cornell University where he is now the Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering.

Honors and awards

Lumley received the 1990 Fluid Dynamics Prize

Fluid Dynamics Prize (APS)

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 of American Physical Society

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, "For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of turbulent flow, in particular, the fundamental structure of turbulent shear flows, the effects of drag-reducing additives, and his widely recognized contributions to the statistical theory of turbulence, and for his personal and intellectual leadership in the international fluid dynamics community, including his educational films and books, and his long active devotion to the Division of Fluid Dynamics of The American Physical Society." He has also received several other wards, including:

• Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1982
• Timoshenko Medal
  Timoshenko Medal
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  , 1993
• Recipient of two honorary doctorate degrees (honoris causa) from the French University System, in Paris and in Poitiers.
• Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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• Member of the National Academy of Engineering
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Books authored

• Tennekes, H.
  Hendrik Tennekes
  Hendrik Tennekes was the director of research at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute , and was a Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He is known for his work in the fields of turbulence and multi-modal forecasting...
  
  and J. L. Lumley, A First Course in Turbulence, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (1972).
• Holmes, P., J. L. Lumley, and G. Berkooz, Turbulence, Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems and Symmetry, Cambridge University Press (1998). ISBN 978-0521634199
• Lumley, J. L., Engines: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, (1999).
• Lumley, J. L., Still Life with Cars: An Automotive Memoir, McFarland, (2005).
• Lumley, J. L., Stochastic Tools in Turbulence, Dover Publications (2007). ISBN 978-0486462707
• Monin, A. S., A. M. Yaglom, and J. L. Lumley, Statistical Fluid Mechanics - vol 1: Mechanics of Turbulence, The MIT Press (1971). ISBN 978-0262130622

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