Marshall P. Tulin (14 March 1926 - 31 August 2019) was an American engineer working in hydrodynamics. He was the Director of the Ocean Engineering Laboratory,

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. His pioneering work in the 1950s is credited with successful developments in the theory of

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for naval engineering. After graduating from

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in 1946, he first worked on high-speed

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testing of the

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aircraft before moving to work for the Navy at the

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. He founded a consulting company, Hydronautics Inc, with

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in 1959. He was elected to membership of the

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in 1979.

Selected writing

* Tulin, M. P. (1963). Supercavitating flows - small perturbation theory. Laurel, Md, Hydronautics Inc. * Tulin, M. P., & Hsu, C. C. (1982). Theory of high speed displacement ships with transom sterns. Laurel, Md, Hydronautics Inc.

References

* Ashley, S. (2001, May). Warp Drive Underwater. Scientific American. * Brennan, C. E. (1995). Cavitation and bubble dynamics. Oxford engineering science series, 44. New York, Oxford University Press. * Miloh, T. (1991). Mathematical approaches in hydrodynamics. Philadelphia, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. – includes short biography * National Research Council (U.S.). (2000). An assessment of naval hydromechanics science and technology. Washington, D.C., National Academy Press. 21st-century American engineers 1926 births 2019 deaths Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering {{US-academic-bio-stub