Parviz Moin

Parviz Moin ( born October 23, 1952 in Tehran ) is an Iranian- American engineer who is particularly concerned with turbulence.

Moin studied at the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in engineering in 1974 and at Stanford University, where he became in 1978 a doctorate in mechanics. As a post - graduate student he was at NASA Ames Research Center, 1980-1982 Assistant Professor at Stanford University, from 1982 to 1986 again at the Ames Research Center and from 1986 and from 1989 professor at Stanford. He is since 1987 Director of the Center for Turbulence Research.

He was a pioneer in the direct and large eddy simulation of turbulence.

In 1996 he received the hydrodynamics Prize of the American Physical Society, and he received the Humboldt Research Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2011), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ( AIAA ). He received the AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award and the Lawrence Sperry Award of the AIAA. In 1985, he received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal and he received the Outstanding Leadership Medal from NASA. He holds an honorary doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

He is one of the editors of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics.

Writings

• With Krishnan Mahesh: Direct Numerical Simulation. A Tool in Turbulence Research. In: Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. Vol 30, 1998, pp. 539-578
• Fundamentals of engineering numerical analysis, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press 2010