REYNOLDS W.C.

REYNOLDS W.C. 16.03. 1933 Berkeley CA/USA 03.01. 2004 Los Altos CA/USA William Craig Reynolds was educated at the Stanford University, Stanford CA, from where he obtained the BS degree in 1954, the MS degree in 1954, and the PhD degree in mechanical engineering in 1957. He joined until 1966 the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Stanford University as assistant and associate professor, from when he was professor of mechanical engineering there, from 1972 to 1982, and 1989 to 1993 department chair, and chairman of the Institute of Energy Studies from 1974 to 1982. He was the recipient of the 1972 G. Edwin Burks Award from the American Society of Engineering Education, and the 1989 Fluids Engineering Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME. Reynolds was an aeronautical research scientist, a nuclear engineer, and a consultant in fluid and applied mechanics. His research interests included blow-down phenomena in thermodynamics, non-isothermal heat transfer, zero-g fluid mechanics, the turbulence modeling, turbulent boundary layer flow structure, turbulence-wall interactions, stability of gas films, the stability of laminar and turbulent flows in general, boundary-layer calculation methods, surface-tension-driven flows, organized waves in turbulent shear flows, unsteady turbulent boundary layers, internal combustion engine cylinder flows, and unsteady jets and separating flows. He has written a large number of papers and books, including one in thermodynamics, and several chapters on the computation of turbulent flows. He was an outstanding teacher and excellent researcher who had a good relation within the faculty. Anonymous (1994). Reynolds, W.C. American men and women of science 19(6): 175. Bowker: New Providence. Anonymous (2000). Reynolds, W.C. Who’s who in America 54: 4058. Marquis: Chicago. Reynolds, W.C. (1965). Engineering thermodynamics, 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill: New York. Reynolds, W.C. (1974). Recent advances in the computation of turbulent flows. Advances in Chemical Engineering 9: 193-246. Reynolds, W.C., Cebeci, T. (1976). Calculation of turbulent flows. Turbulence: 193-229, P. Bradshaw, ed. Springer: Berlin. Reynolds, W.C. (1977). Computation of turbulent flows. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 8: 183-208. https://news.stanford.edu/news/2004/january21/reynoldsobit-121.html P

RHONE 02.04. 1921 Denver CO/USA 17.09. 1996 Denver CO/USA Thomas (Tom) Joseph Rhone was educated as civil engineer. After graduation, he joined the US Bureau of Reclamation, Denver CO, where he stayed during his entire career as hydraulic research engineer in the Division of the Engineering Laboratory, dealing mainly with the design of dams in the West of the USA. He was winner of the 1985 ASCE Hydraulic Structures Award. The Bureau of Reclamation was established in 1902. Since then USBR has designed and constructed more than 220 dams. Its main hydraulic structures are the spillway and the outlet works. Recently, many dams have been refurbished by adding stepped spillways, labyrinth spillways, traditional chutes and tunnel spillways, and energy dissipators, to improve safety aspects, cope with environmental issues or to obtain better efficiency.1938 was the birthdate of ASCE’s Hydraulics Division, later publishing the Journal of the Hydraulics Division, followed from 1983 by the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. Many hydraulic studies made at USBR were included in these journals, including the outstanding works on energy dissipators in the 1950s, the works on outlet structures conducted in the 1960s, or recommendations on cavitation damage in the 1970s. The 1988 paper summarizes the major USBR activities. Anonymous (1975). Thomas J. Rhone. Civil Engineering 45(8): 69. P Anonymous (1985). Thomas J. Rhone. Civil Engineering 55(10): 96. P Pugh, C.A., Rhone, T.J. (1988). Cavitation in Bureau of Reclamation spillways. Intl. Symp. Hydraulics for high dams Beijing: 645-652. Rhone, T.J., Peterka, A.J. (1959). Improved tunnel spillway flip buckets. Journal of the Hydraulics Division ASCE 85(HY12): 53-76. Rhone, T.J. (1974). Hydraulic model studies for the penstock for the Grand Coulee third power plant. Report REC-ERC-74-14. US Bureau of Reclamation: Denver CO. Rhone, T.J. (1977). Baffled apron as spillway energy dissipator. Journal of the Hydraulics Division ASCE 103(HY12): 1391-1401. Rhone, T.J. (1988). Development of hydraulic structures. ASCE Conf. Hydraulic Engineering Colorado Springs: 132-147. ASCE: New York. Rhone, T.J. (1990). 50th anniversary of the Hydraulics Division 1938-1988: 132-147, A.M. Alsaffar, ed. ASCE: New York. Williamson, J.V., Rhone, T.J. (1973). Dividing flow in branches and wyes. Journal of the Hydraulics Division ASCE 99(HY5): 747-769.