EICHELBRENNER

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28.6.1913 Rüstringen/D - 1.7.1974 Paris/F

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Ernst Eichelbrenner graduated as a mathematician from Hamburg University in 1943 and earned the PhD title from Sorbonne, Paris in 1955. He was a scientific collaborator of Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales ONERA from 1946 to 1958 and was appointed professor at Poitiers University in 1962. In 1965, he moved as a professor to Université Laval, Quebec, Canada until returning to Paris in 1973. He was heart-ill and ignored the doctors' advice for a calmer life. For Eichelbrenner, there was the simple rule: Either do something or leave it! A procedure of the Berlin Technical University for an Honorary Doctorate came too late. His main professional researches were devoted to aerodynamics.

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Eichelbrenner initiated his professional career in France after return as a prisoner of war to Germany. He was interested in spatial flow features particularly relating to three-dimensional boundary layer flow. He thereby adopted the approach of Maurice Roy (1899-1985) relating to flow separation from rigid bodies. Some 70 publications report of the thorough experimental and theoretical work conducted by Eichelbrenner, who analyzed the complex turbulent separation processes. A summary book was prepared, but Eichelbrenner's life was too short for final submission. A number of his pupils such as Dietrich Küchemann (1911-1976) or the Japanese Tani developed his work in the 1970s. Eichelbrenner was awarded the Henry-Bazin-Prize from Académie des Sciences, Paris, in 1965, and the Commonwealth Visiting Professor Award in 1968 at Syracuse University NY, USA; he was an Associate Fellow of AIAA.

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_{Eichelbrenner, E.A., Oudart, A. (1955). Méthode de calcul de la couche limite tridimensionnelle: Application à un corps fuselé incliné sur le vent. Publication ONERA 76. Châtillonsous-Bagneux.}

_{Eichelbrenner, E.A. ed. (1972). Recent research on unsteady boundary layers. IUTAM 1971 Symposium. Université Laval: Quebec.}

_{Eichelbrenner, M. (2004). Ernst August Eichelbrenner. Personal communication. P}

_{Gruschwitz, E., Eichelbrenner, E.A. (1950). Calcul approché de la couche limite laminaire en écoulement compressible sur une paroi non conductrice de la chaleur. Publication ONERA 47. Châtillon-sous-Bagneux.}

_{Legendre, R., Eichelbrenner, E.A., Baranoff, A. von (1952). Ecoulement transsonique autour d'ailes à forte flèche. Publication ONERA 53. Châtillon-sous-Bagneux.}

_{Schaffhauser-Eichelbrenner, U. (2004). Ernst A. Eichelbrenner. Personal communication. P}