Steven Orszag
Steven Orszag · Science & Medicine
Co-founder of computational fluid dynamics; Otto Laporte Award (1991)
1943, Manhattan, New York City, USA — 2011
United States
Steven Orszag is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Co-founder of computational fluid dynamics; Otto Laporte Award (1991)
Steven Orszag was an American mathematician who co-founded modern computational fluid dynamics, achieving the first successful computer simulations of three-dimensional turbulent flows and, with David Gottlieb, systematizing spectral methods for solving partial differential equations. He held professorships at MIT, Princeton and Yale and received the Otto Laporte Award in 1991. His family was Jewish, of Hungarian origin.
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Co-founder of computational fluid dynamics; Otto Laporte Award (1991)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics
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