Biography:Uriel Frisch
Uriel Frisch (born in Agen, in France, on December 10, 1940)[1] is a French mathematical physicist known for his work on fluid dynamics and turbulence.
Biography
From 1959 to 1963 Frisch was a student at the École Normale Supérieure. Early in his graduate studies, he became interested in turbulence, under the mentorship of Robert Kraichnan, a former assistant to Albert Einstein.[2] Frisch earned a Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of Paris, and since then he has worked at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He retired in 2006, and became a director of research emeritus at CNRS.[1][3]
Frisch's wife Hélène is also a physicist, and the grand daughter of mathematician Paul Lévy.[4]
Research
Frisch is the author of a 1995 book on turbulence[5] and of over 200 research publications.
One of his most cited works, published in 1986, concerns the lattice gas automaton method of simulating fluid dynamics using a cellular automaton. The method used until that time, the HPP model, simulated particles moving in axis-parallel directions in a square lattice, but this model was unsatisfactory because it obeyed unwanted and unphysical conservation laws (the conservation of momentum within each axis-parallel line). Frisch and his co-authors Brosl Hasslacher and Yves Pomeau introduced a model using instead the hexagonal lattice which became known as the FHP model after the initials of its inventors and which much more accurately simulated the behavior of actual fluids.[6][7]
Frisch is also known for his work with Giorgio Parisi on the analysis of the fine structure of turbulent flows,[8] for his early advocacy of multifractal systems in modeling physical processes,Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences since 2008.[1][9] He is an Officier of the Ordre national du Mérite and the recipient of the 2010 Modesto Panetti e Carlo Ferrari prize.[10]
In 2020 he has been awarded with the prize EUROMECH, provided by the European Mechanics Society. [11]
Selected publications
- Frisch, U. (1986), "Lattice-gas automata for the Navier-Stokes equation", Phys. Rev. Lett. 56 (14): 1505–1508, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.1505, PMID 10032689, Bibcode: 1986PhRvL..56.1505F.
- Frisch, Uriel (1995). Turbulence. The legacy of A. N. Kolmogorov. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-45103-5.[12]
- Frisch, U.; Matarrese, S.; Mohayaee, R; Sobolevski, A. (2002). "A reconstruction of the initial conditions of the universe by optimal mass transportation". Nature 417 (6886): 260–262. doi:10.1038/417260a. PMID 12015595. Bibcode: 2002Natur.417..260F.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Les Membres de l’Académie des sciences élus en 2008 et 2009, retrieved 2012-03-05.
- ↑ Renowned Turbulence Expert Uriel Frisch visits PKU:Hold onto Turbulence Tightly Like a "Bulldog", Peking University, 2009, retrieved 2012-03-05.
- ↑ Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2012-03-05.
- ↑ Schwartz, Laurent (2001), A mathematician grappling with his century, Springer, p. 141, ISBN 978-3-7643-6052-8, https://books.google.com/books?id=xVrC7ek7iRwC&pg=PA141.
- ↑ Frisch 1995.
- ↑ Frisch, Hasslacher & Pomeau 1986.
- ↑ Wilson, Greg (October 8, 1988), "The life and times of cellular automata", New Scientist: 44–47.
- ↑ Jaffard, Stéphane; Meyer, Yves; Ryan, Robert Dean (2001), Wavelets: Tools for Science & Technology, SIAM, p. 127, ISBN 978-0-89871-448-7, https://books.google.com/books?id=3Pc06HK4rVUC&pg=PA127.
- ↑ "Uriel Frisch". French Academy of Sciences. http://www.academie-sciences.fr/academie/membre/Frisch_Uriel.htm.
- ↑ "Modesto Panetti e Carlo Ferrari prize". Italian Academy of Sciences. http://www.accademiadellescienze.it/premi/panetti-ferrari.
- ↑ [https://euromech.org/prizes/fluid EURMECH award.
- ↑ Bradshaw, Peter (8 November 1996), "Of cream and clouds (review of Faber's Fluid Dynamics for Physicists and Frisch's Turbulence)", Times Higher Education, http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=162027§ioncode=1
Further reading
- Frisch, Uriel (2009) (in French), Notice sur les travaux de Uriel Frisch, French Academy of Sciences, http://www.academie-sciences.fr/academie/membre/FrischU_notice_2009.pdf
External links
- Uriel Frisch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Nice Uriel-fest, December 2010 (Photographs from a symposium in honor of Frisch)
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