An obituary for Professor Kirti Ghia, aerospace educator, research scientist, and pioneer in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics, who died on Jun 13 at the age of 80, is presented. Ghia came to the US from India in 1961, following his baccalaureate degree in Mechanical Engineering. He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. For 47 years he was a faculty member of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Cincinnati (UC), where he founded the Computational Fluid Dynamics Research Laboratory. He received the university's Rieveschl Award for Distinguished Scientific Research, the George Barbour Award for outstanding Student-Faculty Relations, the Dolly Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching, and was named University Distinguished Professor. Ghia held visiting appointments at NASA, the Air Force Research Laboratory the Polytechnic Institute of New York University the University of Southern California, and Brown University, as well as at international institutes.


    Zugriff

    Zugriff über TIB

    Verfügbarkeit in meiner Bibliothek prüfen

    Bestellung bei Subito €


    Exportieren, teilen und zitieren



    Titel :

    Obituaries: AIAA Fellow Ghia Died in June


    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2017



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    Lokalklassifikation TIB:    770/7040
    BKL:    55.88 Luftverkehr, Raumfahrt / 55.88