Antony Jameson (1934, Gillingham, Kent UK) is an aeronautical engineer known for his pioneering work in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics. 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... A computer simulation of high velocity air flow around the Space Shuttle during re-entry. ...

Early life

Much of his early childhood was spent in India where his father was stationed as a British Army Officer. He first attended school at St. Edwards, Simla. Subsequently he was educated at Mowden School and Winchester College. He served as a Lieutenant in the British Army in 1953-1955, and was sent to Malaya. On coming out of the army he worked in the compressor design section of Bristol Aero-Engines in the summer of 1955, before studying engineering at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, graduating with first class honors in 1958. Subsequently he stayed on at Cambridge to obtain a Ph.D. in Magnetohydrodynamics, and he was a Research Fellow of Trinity Hall from 1960-1963. The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ...

Career in the UK

On leaving Cambridge he worked as an economist for the Trades Union Congress in 1964-1965. He then became Chief Mathematician at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics in Coventry. Image:TradeUnionsCongress20050108 CopyrightKaihsuTai. ... Hawker Siddeley Dynamics is a division of Hawker Siddeley Company. ...

Career in the United States

In 1966 he joined the Aerodynamics Section of the Grumman Aerospace Corporation in Bethpage, New York. In this period his work was largely directed toward the application of automatic control theory to stability augmentation systems. Starting in 1970, he began to concentrate on the problem of predicting transonic flow. Existing numerical methods were not equal to the task, and it was clear that new methods would have to be developed. At that time limitations in computer capabilities also precluded any attempt to calculate the flow past a complete aircraft, but useful efforts could be made for simpler configurations such as aerofoils and wings. The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading producer of military and civilian aircraft of the 20th century. ...

In 1972 he moved to the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, where he continued his work on transonic flow. In 1974 he was appointed Professor of Computer Science at New York University. He joined Princeton University in 1980, and in 1982 he was appointed James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Aerospace Engineering. He was Director of the University's Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics from 1986 to 1988. He is currently the Thomas V. Jones Professor of Engineering in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University. The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS) is a division of New York University (NYU) and serves as a center for research and advanced training in computer science and mathematics. ... New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey in the United States of America. ... Stanford redirects here. ...

Computational Fluid Dynamics Methods

During his career, Professor Jameson has devised a variety of new schemes for solving the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations for inviscid and viscous compressible flows, and has written a series of computer programs which have been widely used in the aircraft industry. These programs include:

• FLO 1, 2 (1970) Solution of 2D potential flow by conformal mapping
• SYN 1 (1970) Solution of inverse problem by conformal mapping (Lighthill's method)
• FLO 6 (1971-73) 2D transonic potential flow (rotated difference scheme)
• FLO 22 (1975) First transonic potential flow solution for a swept wing (co-author D. Caughey) - this was first used for the wing design of the Canadair Challenger, later marketed as XFLO 22 by the Dutch NLR, still in use today at Boeing, Long Beach
• FLO 27 (1977) 3D potential flow in general grid with trilinear isoparametric elements (incorporated in Boeing A488 software)
• FLO 36 (1979) Multigrid solution of 2D transonic potential flow in 3-10 (.06 sec. on IBM T30 laptop)
• FLO 57 (1981) Solution of 3D Euler equations - used worldwide; derivatives include NASA's TLNS3D, Lockheed's TEAM code, British Aerospace's codes EJ30, EJ65, Dornier Ikarus code
• FLO 82 (1983) Multigrid solution of 2D Euler Equations in 25-50 steps
• FLO 67 (1985) Multigrid solution of 3D Euler equations in 25-50 steps
• AIRPLANE (1985) First solution of Euler equations for a complete aircraf (tetrahedral mesh) used by McDonald Douglas (MD11), NASA (HSCT), Mitsubishi, EADS (basis of their current software Airplane+)
• FLO 97, 107 (1988) Cell-vertex and cell-centered schemes for 3D Navier-Stokes equations
• SYN 36 (1989) Airfoil design in transonic potential flow via control theory
• UFLO 82, 87 (1991) Dual timestepping scheme for unsteady flow - used in Tflo code for Stanford's ASCI project
• SYN 87, 88 (1993-95) Wing design by control theory using 3D Euler equations
• SYN 107 (1997) Wing design by control theory using 3D Navier-Stokes equations
• FLO 82-SGS (2001) "Textbook" multigrid solution of 2D and 3D Euler equations
• FLO 88-SGS (2001) 3-5 steps with nonlinear symmetric Gauss-Seidel scheme
• SYNPLANE (2003) Aerodynamic design of complete aircraft using control theory with tetrahedral mesh
• FLO -3xx (2003) Viscous flow solution on arbitrary polyhedral meshes
• SYN -3xx (2003) Aerodynamic design of general configurations in viscous flow on arbitrary meshes

Awards

In 1980 he received the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement in recognition of his earlier work on transonic potential flow. In 1988 he received the Gold Medal of the British Royal Aeronautical Society for his outstanding contribution to the development of methods for the calculation of transonic flow over real aircraft configurations. In 1991 he was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and he was also elected an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1993, he was selected to receive the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Fluid Dynamics Award in recognition of numerous contributions to computational fluid dynamics and the development of many widely used computer programs which have immeasurably improved the capability to analyze and understand complex flows. In 1995 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. In 1995, he was selected by ASME to receive The Spirit of St. Louis Medal for numerous outstanding contributions to computational fluid dynamics and the development of many widely used computer programs that have immeasurably improved understanding of complex flow fields and become a dominant tool for aerodynamic design. In 1996 he was selected to receive the Theodorsen Lectureship Award from ICASE/NASA, Langley. In 1997 he was elected as a Foreign Associate to the National Academy of Engineering. In 2001 he recieved the degree Docteur Honoris Causa from the University of Paris, and in 2002 he recieved the degree Docteur Honoris Causa from Uppsala University. Founded in 1866 The Royal Aeronautical Society is the worlds leading authority on aviation. ... The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the scholarly society for the field of aerospace engineering. ... The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the scholarly society for the field of aerospace engineering. ... ... The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is a professional body, specifically an engineering society, focused on mechanical engineering. ... Founded in 1964, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in the United States provides engineering leadership in service to the nation. ... The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The historic University of Paris (French: Université de Paris) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was in 1970 reorganized as 13 autonomous universities (University of Paris I–XIII). ... Uppsala University (Swedish Uppsala universitet) is a public university in Uppsala, Sweden. ...