Stephen H. Davis

Stephen Howard Davis ( born September 7, 1939 in New York City ) is an American Applied mathematical and engineering science that deals with hydrodynamics and materials science.

He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor 's degree in electrical engineering in 1960 and the master's degree in mathematics in 1962 and his doctorate in Lee Aaron sails, 1964 ( The effect of property variations and surface curvature on Benard convection ) .. 1964 to 1966 he was research mathematician at the RAND Corporation, and from 1966 to 1968 Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at Imperial College London. He was Assistant Professor of Mechanics and later a professor at the Johns Hopkins University in 1968. From 1979 he was a professor at Northwestern University, where he is Walter P. Murphy Professor of Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics.

In hydrodynamics he treated among other instabilities due to variation of the surface tension and cracking of thin films, droplet distribution, metallic foams, the transition from liquid to solid state, hydrodynamics of blood vessels.

From 1969 to 1989 he was Assistant and then Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and its editor from 2000 to 2009. Since 1999 he was editor of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics.

He received the 2001 GI Taylor Medal and 1994 the hydrodynamics Prize of the American Physical Society. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. He received the Humboldt Research Award.

Writings

• Alexander Oron, S. George Bankoff: Long -scale evolution of thin liquid films, Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol 69, 1997, pp. 931-980
• Theory of Solidification, Cambridge University Press 2001