Wilhelm Schneider (engineer)

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Wilhelm Schneider
Born (1938-05-03) 3 May 1938 (age 86)
Alma mater TU Wien
Known for Schneider flow
Scientific career
Fields Fluid mechanics
Institutions TU Wien
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
DFVLR
Cornell University
CISM - International Centre for Mechanical Sciences
Thesis Analytische Berechnung achsensymmetrischer Überschallströmungen mit Stößen  (1963)
Doctoral advisor Klaus Oswatitsch

Wilhelm Schneider (born May 3, 1938) is an Austrian scientist and a specialist in fluid mechanics. He is an is Emeritus Professor of at TU Wien. [1]

Biography and research

Wilhel Schneider was born in Vienna, Austria in 1938. He graduated with a doctors' degree from TU Wien in 1963. He then worked at the DFVLR till 1968 and then at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a year and then joined the DFVLR in 1969. He moved to TU Wien in 1973 and became an emeritus professor in 2006. [2]

His research contributions are significant in many areas of fluid mechanics and related areas including supersonic and hypersonic flows, radiation gas dynamics, waves in fluids, jets, plumes & shear layers, convection flows, condensation, evaporation, fluidization, electric arcs and other topics. [3]

He became the corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1989 and a full member in 1995. [4] He also served as the chairman of the academy form 2002 to 2006. He is the receipient of many awards including Ernst Mach prize (1966), Ludwig Prandtl Ring (2005) and others. He became the member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2011. [5]

On his 60th birthday, an edited book titled Recent Advances in Boundary Layer Theory was published by Springer and on his 70th birthday the book [6] [7] [8]

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Schneider flow describes the axisymmetric outer flow induced by a laminar or turbulent jet having a large jet Reynolds number or by a laminar plume with a large Grashof number, in the case where the fluid domain is bounded by a wall. When the jet Reynolds number or the plume Grashof number is large, the full flow field constitutes two regions of different extent: a thin boundary-layer flow that may identified as the jet or as the plume and a slowly moving fluid in the large outer region encompassing the jet or the plume. The Schneider flow describing the latter motion is an exact solution of the Navier-Stokes equations, discovered by Wilhelm Schneider in 1981. The solution was discovered also by A. A. Golubinskii and V. V. Sychev in 1979, however, was never applied to flows entrained by jets. The solution is an extension of Taylor's potential flow solution to arbitrary Reynolds number.

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References

  1. "Wilhelm Schneider". www.oeaw.ac.at.
  2. "Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer". www.fluid.tuwien.ac.at.
  3. "Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer". www.fluid.tuwien.ac.at.
  4. "Suche". www.oeaw.ac.at.
  5. "Prof. Wilhelm Schneider wurde Mitglied in der European Academy of Sciences and Arts". www.tuwien.at. April 21, 2011.
  6. Recent Advances in Boundary Layer Theory: 390 (CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, 390): Amazon.co.uk: Kluwick, Alfred: 9783211831366: Books. ASIN   3211831363.
  7. "Acta Mechanica | fatcat!". fatcat.wiki.
  8. Zierep, Jürgen (December 1, 2008). "Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Dr. h. c. Wilhelm Schneider". Acta Mechanica. 201 (1): 3–4. doi:10.1007/s00707-008-0058-y via Springer Link.