Fazle Hussain
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| A. K. M. Fazle Hussain | |
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| Born | 20 January 1943 Bangladesh |
| Fields | Mechanical Engineering Physics |
| Institutions | University of Houston Rice University John Hopkins University California Institute of Technology University of Cambridge |
| Alma mater | Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | William C. Reynolds |
| Known for | Application of Nanovector Technology Vortex Dynamics Turbulent Flows Fluid Mechanics aeroacoustics Optical measurement techniques |
A. K. M. Fazle Hussain is a Cullen Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Physics, and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. He is the director of the Institute of Fluid Dynamics & Turbulence at the University of Houston and a member of the advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.
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[edit] Education
Hussain did his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET). Following his MS and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 1966 & 1969 under the guidance of William C. Reynolds, Hussain was a post-doctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins University with Leslie S. G. Kovasznay and Stanley Corrsin.
[edit] Honors and awards
- Freeman Scholar Award of ASME in 1984[1][2]
- Fluids Engineering Award of ASME in 2000[3]
- Fluid Dynamics Award of AIAA in 2002)[4][5]
[edit] Books
Nonlinear Dynamics of Structures, World Scientific, 1991
[edit] Book chapters
- "Mechanics of Pulsatile Flows of Relevance to Cardiovascular System," in Cardiovascular Flow Dynamics and Measurements, (Eds. N.H.C. Hwang and N. Norman), University Park Press, Baltimore, pp. 541–632, 1976.
- "New Aspects of Vortex Dynamics Relevant to Coherent Structures in Turbulent Flows," in Eddy Structure Identification (Ed. J.P. Bonnet) Springer, pp. 61–143. 1996.
- "Genesis and Dynamics of Coherent Structures in Near-wall Turbulence: A New Look," in Self-Sustaining Mechanisms of Wall Turbulence (Ed. R. L. Panton) Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, pp. 385, (1997).
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards/literature-awards/freeman-scholar-award
- ^ http://www.scholarsbangladesh.com/fazle_hussain.php/
- ^ http://www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards/achievement-awards/fluids-engineering-award
- ^ http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=401&AwardView=Type&LUPARTICIPATIONCODE=HAFD
- ^ http://www.scholarsbangladesh.com/fazle_hussain.php/
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Categories:
- Living people
- Fluid dynamicists
- American physicists
- American people of Bangladeshi descent
- American scientists
- American engineers
- Mechanical engineers
- Stanford University alumni
- Fellows of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
- Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- Bangladeshi scientists
- Bengali scientists
- Bangladeshi physicists
