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Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volume 45, 2013

Hans W. Liepmann, 1914–2009

Abstract

This article presents a brief account of the life and work of Hans W. Liepmann, a distinguished fluid dynamicist, an outstanding teacher and leader, and the third Director of the Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology.

Keyword(s): Biography, cryogenic fluid mechanics, GALCIT, outstanding teacher and leader, shock waves, turbulence
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