Daniel D. Joseph

Daniel D. Joseph ( born March 26, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois; † 24 May 2011) was an American engineer scientist who dealt with hydrodynamics.

1950 Joseph received his master's degree in sociology at the University of Chicago and then studied Mechanical Engineering (Mechanical Engineering ) at the Illinois Institute of Technology with a bachelor 's degree in 1959, her Master's degree in 1960 and his doctorate in 1963. Starting in 1962, he was there Assistant Professor and since 1963 assistant professor of aeronautical engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he received a full professorship in 1968. Most recently, he was there Regents and Russell J. Penrose Professor.

He dealt with numerical simulation and stability in hydrodynamics, in particular of viscous and viscoelastic materials and currents (for example, oil flow in porous media, including multi- phase flow, foams ). He was a consultant to various companies ( such as Gilette, Schlumberger, Hoechst, Shell, Proctor Gamble).

He received in 1993 the Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology, 1990, the GI Taylor Medal, 1995, the Timoshenko Medal, 1999, Hydrodynamics Prize of the American Physical Society. He was a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (1991 ), the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993 ) and the National Academy of Engineering ( 1990). In 1992 he was G. I. Taylor Lecturer at Cambridge.

He was married in 1990 and had three children.

Writings

• Stability of Fluid Motions, 2 volumes, Springer- Verlag, 1976
• With Y. Renardy: Fundamentals of Two - Fluid Dynamics, 2 volumes, Springer Verlag, 1993 ( Part 1: Mathematical Theory and Applications, Part 2: Lubricated Transport, Drops and Miscible Liquids)
• Elementary Stability and Bifurcation Theory, 2nd Edition, Springer Verlag 1997
• Fluid Dynamics of Viscoelastic Liquids, Springer Verlag 2007
• With T. Funada, T., J. Wang: Potential Flows of Viscous and Viscoelastic Liquids, Cambridge University Press 2007