GLAUERT M B

UNITED KINGDOM (see also List of Individuals)

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11.5.1924 Farnborough/UK - 14.6.2004 Norwich/UK

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Michael Barker Glauert was the son of Hermann (1892-1934), the famous aerodynamicist. Glauert was educated at Imperial College in London and received the degree of D.Sc. from Manchester University in 1964. He was from 1951 to 1964 a Senior Lecturer in mathematics at Manchester University to be appointed professor of mathematics and Dean of the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.

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Glauert was the first to describe the "wall jet", a turbulent jet that is influenced by the proximity of a wall. It may be described with the inner wall layer which is essentially affected by fluid viscosity, and the outer layer where the jet diffuses. The latter may be subjected to the inviscid Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and the formation of large scale vortices. Wall jets are described with the decay of the maximum forward velocity and its location above the wall. The wall jet has a wide range of applications, such as boundary layer separation control over a wing, film cooling on turbine blades, diffusion processes in a stagnant fluid or as a hydraulic jump in hydraulic engineering. Glauert was also actively involved in the 1960 book edited by Bryan Thwaites (1923-) on Incompressible aerodynamics. It summarizes knowledge of the time and had a number of outstanding contributors. The effect of a pressure gradient on shear flow was investigated by Glauert in the 1962 paper.

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_{Anonymous (1971). Glauert, Michael Barker. Who's who of British scientists: 329. Longman: London.}

_{Glauert, M.B., Lighthill, M.J. (1955). The axisymmetric boundary layer on a long thin cylinder. Proc. Royal Society A 230: 188-203.}

_{Glauert, M.B. (1956). The wall jet. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1: 625-642.}

_{Glauert, M.B. (1957). A boundary layer theorem, with applications to rotating cylinders and slip flow. 9 IUTAM Congress Brussels 4: 43-49.}

_{Glauert, M.B. (1960). Principles of dynamics. Routledge: London.}

_{Glauert, M.B. (1962). The pressure gradient induced by shear flow past a flat plate. Journal Aeronautical Sciences 29(5): 540-542.}

_{Glauert, V. (2005). Michael Barker Glauert. Personal communication. P}

_{Thwaites, B., ed. (1960). Incompressible aerodynamics. Dover: New York.}