L. Gary Leal

Leslie Gary Leal ( born March 18, 1943 in Bellingham, Washington ) is an American engineer scientist who deals with hydrodynamics. He is a professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara ( UCSB ).

Leal studied chemical engineering at the University of Washington with a bachelor 's degree in 1965 and from Stanford University with a master's degree in 1968 and his doctorate at Andreas Acrivos 1969. 1970 he was Assistant Professor at Caltech, where in 1978 a full professor in Chemical Engineering received and 1986-1989 Chevron Distinguished Professor was. From 1989 he was a professor at UCSB.

Among other things, he was a visiting professor at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge. It deals with hydrodynamics of complex fluids ( such as polymers, liquid crystals, emulsions) including numerical simulation, and among other Dripping formation.

In 2002 he received the hydrodynamics Prize of the American Physical Society, 1978 the Allan Colburn Award and the 2001 Bingham Medal. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the National Academy of Engineering ( 1987). In 1976, he worked as a Guggenheim Fellow in Cambridge.

Leal is married since 1965 and has three children.

Writings

• Laminar Flow and Convective Transport Processes, Butterworth - Heinemann, Stoneham, Massachusetts, 1992
• Advanced Transport Phenomena: Fluid Mechanics and Convective Transport Processes, Cambridge University Press, 2007