John D. Buckmaster

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John D. Buckmaster
Born1941 (1941)
Alma materImperial College London
Cornell University
Known forBuckmaster equation
Scientific career
FieldsCombustion
Fluid dynamics
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
ThesisSome Topics in Magnetohydrodynamics (1969)
Doctoral advisorGeoffrey S.S. Ludford

John David Buckmaster is an Emeritus Professor of Department of Aerospace Engineering at University of Illinois, specialized in the field of combustion[1] He finished his bachelor's degree from Imperial College London in 1962 and completed PhD under the supervision of from Cornell University in 1969.

Books[]

  • John D. Buckmaster, Geoffrey S.S. Ludford (1982). Theory of Laminar Flames. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521091923.
  • John D. Buckmaster, Geoffrey S.S. Ludford (1983). Lectures on Mathematical Combustion. SIAM. ISBN 978-0898711868.
  • John D. Buckmaster (1985). The Mathematics of Combustion. SIAM. ISBN 978-0898710533.
  • John D. Buckmaster, Tadao Takeno (1987). Mathematical Modeling in Combustion Science. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3662136706.

Honors[]

John Buckmaster was elected as the fellow of American Physical Society in 1986. He is also fellow of Institute of Physics (1999), Combustion Institute.[2] He is the recipient of Ya. B. Zeldovich Gold Medal (2004) from Combustion Institute,[3] Alexander von Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist Award, Propellants and Combustion Prize (2002) from AIAA, etc. The Buckmaster equation is named after him.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Aerospace at Illinois". aerospace.illinois.edu.
  2. ^ "Fellows of The Combustion Institute - The Combustion Institute". www.combustioninstitute.org.
  3. ^ "Ya. B. Zeldovich Gold Medal - The Combustion Institute". www.combustioninstitute.org.

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