John L. Lumley

John Leask Lumley (* November 4, 1930 in Detroit ) is an American engineer scientist who deals with hydrodynamics, in particular turbulence.

Lumley graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1952, made in 1954 a master's degree in engineering at Johns Hopkins University and was there in 1957 when Stanley Corrsin doctorate ( Some Problems Connected with the Motion of Particles in Turbulent fluid Smalll ). From 1959 he was assistant professor and later professor at the Pennsylvania State University ( Aerospace Engineering ) and 1977 at Cornell University.

He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1993 he received the Timoshenko Medal and 1990 the hydrodynamics Prize of the American Physical Society.

He was Guggenheim Fellow and repeatedly visiting professor in France ( Aix -Marseille, Ecole Centrale Lyon ) and Belgium (Liège, Louvain- la -Neuve ). He holds an honorary doctorate from the Ecole Centrale Lyon and received the 1971 Medal of the University of Liège.

1990/91 he was head of the Stanford / NASA Ames Center for Turbulence Research.

Lumley, who grew up in the Motor City Detroit, is a passionate car hobbyists and wrote a book of memories.

Writings

• Hendrik Tennekes A First Course in Turbulence, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1972
• Philip Holmes, G. Berkooz, Turbulence, Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems and Symmetry, Cambridge University Press 1998
• Engines: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press 1999
• Still Life with Cars: An Automotive Memoir, McFarland 2005
• Stochastic Tools in Turbulence, Dover Publications, 2007