Uriel Frisch

Uriel Frisch ( born December 10, 1940 in Agen ) is a French Applied mathematicians, in particular deals with turbulence.

Fresh studied 1959-1963 at the Ecole Normale Superieure, made in 1962 his degree ( licentiate ) in Applied Mathematics at the University of Paris and received his doctorate there in 1964 ( thesis de troisieme cycle) and 1967 (These d' Etat). From 1963 he was a scientist of the CNRS in Paris and from the 1990s at the University of Nice, now emeritus director of research at the laboratory CASSIOPÉE in Nice. 1966/67, he was at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and 1978/79 he was a visiting professor at Harvard University.

Uriel Frisch deals with mathematical and numerical hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics, and nonlinear dynamics ( such as intermittency in chaos theory) and statistical physics with applications in geophysics, astrophysics and cosmology. In 1986, he exhibited with Brosl Hasslacher, and Yves Pomeau (then at Los Alamos National Laboratory), that a simple cellular automaton with simple conservation laws at the microscopic level can simulate the complexity of the Navier -Stokes equations of hydrodynamics ( Lattice Gas Cellular Automata, LGCA, also FHP model according to the authors, it later the Lattice Boltzmann Equation, LBE ) developed. To this end, they had to use hexagonal lattice.

For his dissertation, he received the 1967 Peccot Prize of the College de France. In 1985 he received the Prize of the Academie des Sciences Bazin, whose member he has been since 2008. In 2003 he received the Lewis Fry Richardson Medal of the European Geophysical Society. In 1994 he became Chevalier Ordre national du Mérite. In 2010 he received the International Prize for Applied Mechanics Modesto Panetti e Carlo Ferrari of the Academy of Turin.

Writings

  • Turbulence; the Legacy of A.N. Kolmogorov, Cambridge University Press 1995
  • From global scaling a la Kolmogorov to local multifractality scaling in fully developed turbulence, Proc. Roy. Soc. A, Volume 434, 1991, pp. 89
  • Steven Orszag: Turbulence: challenges for theory and experiment, Physics Today January 1990
  • With Brosl Hasslacher, Yves Pomeau: Lattice gas automata for the Navier Stokes equation, Physical Review Letters, Volume 56, 1986, pp. 1505
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