Beverley J. McKeon is a physicist and aerospace engineer specializing in fluid dynamics, and in particular in turbulent flows near walls. She was Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology. 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. 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, under the supervision of Alexander Smits.
After postdoctoral research as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow at Imperial College London, 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.
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". In 2020, she became a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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
- ^ 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" (PDF), Engineering & Science, Caltech Magazine: 16–21
- "Beverley J. McKeon: Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics", Faculty, Caltech Division of Engineering & Applied Science, retrieved 2020-07-11
- ^ "Beverley J. McKeon", Caltech Directory, California Institute of Technology, retrieved 2020-07-11
- ^ SMU Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar announcement and speaker biography, Southern Methodist University, October 2011, retrieved 2020-07-11
- APS Fellows Nominated by DFD: 2016, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, retrieved 2020-07-11
- AIAA Announces Its Class of 2020 Fellows and Honorary Fellows, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, February 3, 2020, retrieved 2020-07-11
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