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Professor]Brian]E.Launder on his 60th birthday
Brian E Laundcr,Profcssor of thc Univcrsity of Manchcster lnstitutc of Science and Tcchnology(UMIST),was 60 on 20 July
1999 His namc has bccn closcly associatcd with thc dcvclopmcnt of enginccring turbulcnce modcls that havc bccn uscd、
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vas a pionccr in this neld and has bccn onc of thc inost innucntial con‐both in lcsearch and in industrial computations.Launder、
tributors But Laundcr's achicvcmcnts go much bcyond this topic As a distinguishcd scicntist and cducator,Brian Laundcr is、vellknown bcyond the nuid dynanlics and hcattransfc・ r conllnunity and much respectcd among lcarncd societics for his contributions tothc archival litcraturc,his adnlirablc lccturing and for his adlninistrativc lcadcrship

Brian Launder graduated in 1961 from lmpcrial Conegc with a B Sc in Mcchanical Enginccring.He continucd his education as agraduatc studcnt at Massachusctts lnstitutc of Tcchnology,、 vhcrc in 1963,hc rcccived a S M andin 1965 a Sc D dcgrcc Hc bcgan
his acadcmic carccr in 1964 as lccturcrin thc Departmcnt of Mcchanical Enginccring at llllperial Collegc,、 vhcrc hc bccamc a Readcr

in 1971 1n 1976 he moved to the University of CalifOrnia at Davis as Profcssor in thc Dcpartment of Mechanical Enginecring ln
1980 hc rcturncd to England acccpting thc post of Profcssor of Mcchanical Enginccring at l」 MIST,、 vhcrc hc has staycd to the pre―scnt tilne Brian Launder could not havc choscn a morc appropriatc city to scttlc than thc placc、vhcrc Osborne Rcynolds laid thc
foundation of thc lllcchaniCs ofturbulcnt■ o、 vs and dcrivcd his famous avcragcd cquations about a ccntury carlicr At UMIST Brian
Laundcr found an inspiring cnvironmcnt、 vhcrc hc cOuld continue his rcsearch in thc bcst tradition of thc Manchcstcr mcchanics
school Thcrc hc scrvcd t、 vicc as hcad of thc Thcrmo― Fluids E)ivision,t、 vicc as Hcad of IDepartlllcnt of Mcchanical Engincering,and Professor in chargc of Acrospacc undcrgraduate courscs Since 1998 hc has bccn a UMIST Rcscarch Professor and Chairmanof UMIST's Environmcntal Stratcgy GroupThe rcsearch carecr of B E Launder began in the ncld ofturbulcnt now lanlinarisation rclatcd to nows in gas―
turbine bladc pas‐sagcs This topic,on which hc dcfcndcd his doctoral thesis at MIT,rcmaincd onc of his lasting challcngcs to、
vhich hc、/ould rcturn
latcr on scvcral occasions.Howcvcr,ShOrtly aftcrjoining lmpcrial Collcgc as a young lccturer,hc shi■
cd his focus to thc morc gcn―
cral probleln of lllathematical nlodclling of turbulence This lllove coincidcd with,and、 vas rnuch inspircd by the brcakthroughs in.
the dcvclopmcnt of computational rncthods for nuid dynalllics and thc pionccring、 vork on turbulencc rnodclling by a rcsearch tcam
at thc lmpcrial Collcgc lcd at that tinlc by Profcssor I).B.Spalding,FRS Rcalising that thc conling agc of computcrs M/ould opcn
ncw fronticrs in solving turbulent■ ow problcms,Laundcr,togcthcr、 vith a group of his nrst graduate studcnts and assistants、
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vivcd thc carly prc― computcridcas of Chou,Rotta and Davidov and adapted them into a form that、 vas dircctly implcmcntablc into
thc nrst computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD)codcS ThC Succcss was immcdiatc and overwhclming:thcた 一εmodcl thatcmcrgcd fron■ thcsc pionccring cfforts in thc latc sixties bccame,and still is,the most、vidcly uscd cnginccring turbulcncc nlodcl
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