Chia-Chiao Lin

Chia- Chiao Lin, Lin CC often cited (Chinese林 家 翘, * July 7, 1916 in Beijing, † January 13, 2013 ) was a Sino- American physicist and applied mathematician who worked on hydrodynamics.

Lin made ​​in 1937 at Tsinghua University in Beijing, with a degree in physics and then taught at his university. In 1939 he was selected for a scholarship and went to Canada in 1940, where he made his 1941 Master's degree in Applied Mathematics at the University of Toronto. In 1944 he received his doctorate in Theodore von Kármán at Caltech, where he also taught. 1945 to 1947 he taught at Brown University and then from 1947 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he became Professor in 1953 and 1963, Institute Professor. In 1987, he went there to retire. In November 2001, Lin was appointed professor at Tsinghua University and lived in Beijing since 2002.

Lin is best known for his studies on hydrodynamic stability issues (also with applications to gas turbines, vibration of aircraft wings, shock waves, turbulence). He worked from the late 1950s to the applications of hydrodynamics in astrophysics (including density waves in the formation of spiral galaxies, with Frank Shu, but also gravitational collapse and star formation ) and at liquid helium. He also dealt with Numerical Mathematics and Analysis, where he solved a long open problem about the asymptotic solution of ordinary differential equations higher than second order in the vicinity of turning points.

From 1972 to 1974 he was president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

In 1979 he received the hydrodynamics Prize of the American Physical Society first. In 1976 he was awarded the NAS Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1973 he received the Otto Laporte Award and 1975 the Timoshenko Medal. From 1958 he was a member of the Academia Sinica. He was also from 1994, foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1951) and the National Academy of Sciences ( 1962). 1954 and 1960 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. In 1982, he was Killian Lecturer at MIT. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Caltech in 1987 and an Honorary Doctorate of Tsinghua University.

Writings

  • Lin, L. Sailing: Mathematics Applied to deterministic problems in the natural sciences. SIAM 1988
  • David Benney, Frank Shu, Chi Yuan (eds. ): Selected Papers of CC Lin. World Scientific, 1987
  • Lin: Theory of hydrodynamic stability. Cambridge University Press 1966
  • Lin, William H. Reid: Turbulent Flow - Theoretical Aspects, Siegfried Flügge, Clifford Truesdell (Editor) Encyclopedia of Physics, Volume VIII / 2, fluid mechanics, Springer Verlag 1962
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