Hans W. Liepmann
Hans Wolfgang Liepmann (July 3, 1914 – June 24, 2009) was an American fluid dynamicist, aerospace scientist and emeritus Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology.
Hans W. Liepmann | |
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| Born | July 3, 1914 |
| Died | June 24, 2009 (aged 94) |
| Alma mater | Universität Zürich |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | The sound velocity in liquid oxygen as a function of the boiling temperature at frequencies of 7.5 and 1.5 × 10 6 Hz Hz (1938) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Bär |
| Doctoral students | Stanley Corrsin Frank E. Marble Satish Dhawan Arthur E. Bryson Anatol Roshko Roddam Narasimha |
He is known for his numerous contributions in fluid mechanics covering a wide range of problem areas, such as flow instability and turbulence, gas kinetics, viscous compressible fluids and liquid helium flows.
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