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Hendrik (Henk) Tennekes (born December 13 1936,
KampenKampen is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands. It is the home of football team DOS Kampen and it's rivals Go - Ahead Kampen, KHC Kampen, VV Kampen and IJVV-Population centres:...
) was the director of research at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut, or KNMI), and was a Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at
Pennsylvania State UniversityThe Pennsylvania State University is a state-related, land-grant, space grant public research university located in the University Park area and within State College and College Township in Pennsylvania, United States...
. He is known for his work in the fields of
turbulenceIn fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is a fluid regime characterized by chaotic, stochastic property changes. This includes low momentum diffusion, high momentum convection, and rapid variation of pressure and velocity in space and time. Flow that is not turbulent is called laminar flow...
and multi-modal forecasting. He authored the textbooks
The Simple Science of Flight and
A First Course in Turbulence with
John L. LumleyJohn L. Lumley is Professor Emeritus, Graduate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. He is widely known for his research in turbulence.-Academic career:...
. The book "A First Course in Turbulence", is a classic that logs more than 2,000 citations on Google Scholar.
Tennekes was a strong proponent of scientific modeling, and he challenged the use of incomplete or unproven scientific models trying to explain
complex phenomenaA complex system is a system composed of interconnected parts that as a whole exhibit one or more properties not obvious from the properties of the individual parts...
such as
global warmingGlobal warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C during the last century...
.
Books
- The Simple Science of Flight, MIT Press, 1997. ISBN 0-262-70065-4
- A First Course in Turbulence, with John L. Lumley
John L. Lumley is Professor Emeritus, Graduate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. He is widely known for his research in turbulence.-Academic career:...
, MIT Press, 1972. ISBN 0-262-20019-8
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