Daniel Donald Joseph (March 26, 1929 – May 24, 2011) was an American mechanical engineer. He was the Regents Professor Emeritus and Russell J. Penrose Professor Emeritus of Department of

Aerospace Engineering Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is s ...

and Mechanics at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

. He was widely known for his research in

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Academic career

Joseph received his Masters in Sociology from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

in 1950. He received his B.S. (1959), M.S. (1960), and Ph.D. (1963) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the

Illinois Institute of Technology The Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Illinois Tech and IIT, is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Tracing its history to 1890, the present name was adopted upon the m ...

. Joseph started his academic career as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1962. In the following year he joined University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. He was named full Professor in 1968. Joseph's interests included stability of fluid flow, irrotational motions of viscous and viscoelastic fluids, and

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s of solid–liquid flows. He has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the

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, Thomson Scientific Company.

Honors and awards

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Medal, Society of Engineering Science, 1990 *Member of the

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, 1990 *Member of the

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, 1991 * Bingham Medal of the

Society of Rheology The Society of Rheology is an American professional society formed in December, 1929 to represent scientists and technologists working in the field of rheology, the science of the deformation and flow of matter. Current membership is of the orde ...

, 1993 *Fellow of the

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, 1993 *

Timoshenko Medal The Timoshenko Medal is an award given annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to an individual "in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics." The Timoshenko Medal, widely regarded as ...

, 1995 * Fluid Dynamics Prize,

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, 1999

Books

* 1976: ''Stability of Fluid Motions'', I and II,

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, New York Richard DiPrima (1977) "Review of ''Stability of Fluid Motions''", ''Journal of Applied Mechanics'' 44(4): 800,1 * 1993: (wilth Y. Renardy) ''Fundamentals of Two-Fluid Dynamics. Part 1: Mathematical Theory and Applications'', Springer-Verlag, New York * 1993: (with Y. Renardy) ''Fundamentals of Two-Fluid Dynamics: Part 2: Lubricated Transport, Drops and Miscible Liquids'', Springer-Verlag, New York * 1997: ''Elementary Stability and Bifurcation Theory'', 2nd ed., Springer * 2007: ''Fluid Dynamics of Viscoelastic Liquids'', Springer (2007). * 2007: (with Funada, T., and Wang, J.) ''Potential Flows of Viscous and Viscoelastic Liquids'', Cambridge University Press

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Joseph, Daniel D. 1929 births 2011 deaths American mechanical engineers Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the American Physical Society American fluid dynamicists Illinois Institute of Technology alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering University of Chicago alumni University of Minnesota faculty