Biography:Beverley McKeon
Beverley J. McKeon is a physicist and aerospace engineer specializing in fluid dynamics, and in particular in turbulent flows near walls.[1][2] She was Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology.[3] Currently she is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.
Education and career
McKeon is originally from the Surrey, England, the daughter of a flight engineer.[2] She earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Cambridge in 1995 and 1996, respectively. She went to Princeton University for graduate study in mechanical and aerospace engineering, earning a second master's degree in 1999 and completing her Ph.D. in 2003,[4] under the supervision of Alexander Smits.[5]
After postdoctoral research as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow at Imperial College London,[5] she joined the California Institute of Technology faculty in 2006. She was promoted to professor in 2011 and was named von Kármán Professor in 2017.[4]
Recognition
In 2016, McKeon was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination by the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, "for experimental and theoretical contributions to advancing the understanding of wall turbulence and for elegant interdisciplinary approaches to modeling and flow manipulation".[6] In 2020, she became a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.[7]
References
- ↑ Perkins, Robert (November 5, 2019), "Unlocking Turbulence: Caltech engineer exploits the repeating structure of turbulence to create a more complete model of the phenomenon", The Caltech Weekly, https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/unlocking-turbulence
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Oliwenstein, Lori (Winter 2011), "Roughing it: Beverley McKeon has made a career of creating turbulence—and that's a good thing, at least when it comes to golf balls and insect-sized aircraft", Caltech Magazine: 16–21, http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/4512/1/Roughing.pdf
- ↑ "Beverley J. McKeon: Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics", Faculty (Caltech Division of Engineering & Applied Science), http://eas.caltech.edu/people/mckeon, retrieved 2020-07-11
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Beverley J. McKeon", Caltech Directory (California Institute of Technology), https://directory.caltech.edu/personnel/mckeon, retrieved 2020-07-11
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 SMU Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar announcement and speaker biography, Southern Methodist University, October 2011, https://www.smu.edu/-/media/Site/Lyle/ME/Documents/ME-Seminar-Series-Abstracts/Fall-2011/McKeon-Seminar-Announcement---10-21-11.ashx?la=en, retrieved 2020-07-11
- ↑ APS Fellows Nominated by DFD: 2016, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, https://aps.org/units/dfd/fellowship/index.cfm?year=2016, retrieved 2020-07-11
- ↑ AIAA Announces Its Class of 2020 Fellows and Honorary Fellows, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, February 3, 2020, https://www.aiaa.org/news/news/2020/02/03/aiaa-announces-its-class-of-2020-fellows-and-honorary-fellows, retrieved 2020-07-11
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