John Frederick Clarke
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| Born | John Frederick Clarke May 1, 1927 |
| Died | June 11, 2013 (aged 86) |
| Alma mater | Queen Mary College (BSc, PhD) |
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John Frederick Clarke FRS (born 1927) was a Professor, an aeronautical engineer and a pilot.
Education
Clarke was educated at Queen Mary College where he was awarded a PhD.
Awards and honours
Clarke was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1982.[1] His nomination reads:
Professor Clarke is distinguished particularly for his analytical work on the gas dynamics of reacting flows. He has shown how, in the presence of solid boundaries, flows are affected by dissociation, heat conduction and by relaxation of the internal molecular modes. On flame structure he has used perturbation techniques to obtain realistic models in various geometries and has been able to show good agreement with experimental results; he has also studied explosive atmospheres under the influence of various disturbances. His work on supersonic flow has included analyses of shock structure in reacting gases as well as shockless flow with attached flame sheets. Apart from reacting gases he has worked on unsteady aerodynamics both of wing-bodies and of pipe flows.[2]
References
- ^ a b Bray, K. N. C.; Riley, N. (2014). "John Frederick Clarke 1 May 1927 -- 11 June 2013". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2014.0012.
- ^ "EC/1987/04: Clarke, John Frederick". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-08-26.
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