Stillwell Lecture features Antony Jameson, expert in aerodynamics and aerodynamic design

4/1/2016 Susan Mumm, Media Specialist

Professor Antony Jameson, a Fellow of the United Kingdom’s Royal Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Member of the NAE, will present the 2016 Stillwell Lecture.

Written by Susan Mumm, Media Specialist

Professor Antony Jameson
Professor Antony Jameson
Professor Antony Jameson
Prof. Antony Jameson, a Fellow of the United Kingdom’s Royal Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), will present the 2016 Aerospace Engineering at Illinois H.S. Stillwell Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, April 20.

Jameson, the Thomas V. Jones Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford University School of Engineering, will present “Computational Fluid Dynamics: Past, Present, and Future,” at 4 p.m., in Room 1013 Electrical and Computer Engineering Building, 306 N. Wright St., Urbana, Illinois.

Jameson’s Stillwell presentation will give an insightful history of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), including his tremendous impact on it, as well as describe its current use and impact across the aerospace industry.  He will also present several challenges that confront future applications of CFD in aerodynamic design.

Jameson has written or co-written over 400 scientific papers in a wide range of subject areas, including both control theory and aerodynamics. He is the principal developer of the well-known series of “FLO” and “SYN” codes that have been used throughout the aerospace industry.

Having earned his PhD in magnetohydrodynamics from Cambridge University in 1963, Jameson spent much of his career on the problem of predicting transonic flow, a task he began in 1970 while working for Grumman Aerospace Corporation in New York.

Jameson continued the research while on faculty at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and, later, Princeton University, where he directed the program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. While at Princeton in the 1980s, Jameson devised a variety of new schemes for solving the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations for inviscid and viscous compressible flows, and wrote a series of computer programs that have been widely used in the aircraft industry. In 1985 he and his co-workers realized their goal of calculating the flow past a complete aircraft, using his new finite element method. Subsequently, he re-focused his research on the problem of shape optimization for aerodynamic design.

In 1980 Jameson received the Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in recognition of his earlier work on transonic potential flow. In 1988 he received the Gold Medal of the British Royal Aeronautical Society for his outstanding contribution to the development of methods for the calculation of transonic flow over real aircraft configurations. In 1991 he was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), then received the AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award in 1993.

In 1995, Jameson was elected a Fellow of the British Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge, and that year was selected for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Spirit of St. Louis Medal. He was elected as an NAE foreign associate in 1997, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2005.

In 2006, he was selected jointly by six engineering societies to receive the Elmer A. Sperry Award for Advancing the Art of Transportation, in recognition of his seminal and continuing contributions to the modern design of aircraft through his numerous algorithmic innovations and through the development of the FLO, SYN, and AIRPLANE series of computational fluid dynamics codes.
 


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This story was published April 1, 2016.