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ROUSE 29.03. 1906 Toledo OH/USA 16.10. 1996 Sun City AZ/USA Educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, Hunter Rouse was a travelling hydraulics Fellow receiving the Dr.-Ing. title from Technische Universität Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1932. He was an instructor then at Columbia University, New York, until 1936, assistant professor of fluid mechanics at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, until 1939, when taking over as professor of fluid mechanics at State University of Iowa, Iowa City IA, and as director of Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research IIHR from 1944 until retirement in 1966. He was visiting professor at University of Grenoble, France, in the 1950s, among many other similar positions. Rouse was a man whose name is synonymous with excellence in fluids engineering education, research, and application. His influence on fluids engineering was remarkable and it continues through his many milestones, still relevant publications, films, and the score of engineers who received advanced degrees under his supervision. He authored a number of successful books in hydraulic engineering and fluid mechanics, notably his Fluid mechanics in 1938, his Elementary mechanics of fluids in 1946, his Engineering hydraulics in 1950 as a summary of the 1949 Hydraulics Conference held at the State University of Iowa, History of hydraulics in collaboration with Simon Ince (1921-) as the far most cited of Rouse’s books, Advanced mechanics of fluids in 1958 and his Hydraulics in the United States, 1976. Rouse was awarded IAHR honorary membership in 1985. The ASCE Hunter Rouse Annual Lecture was installed in 1979 as an award for distinguished hydraulic engineers. Anonymous (1939). Hunter Rouse. Civil Engineering 9(1): 53. P Anonymous (1964). Rouse, Hunter. Who’s who in engineering 9: 1595. Lewis: New York. Rouse, H. (1934). On the use of dimensionless numbers. Civil Engineering 4(11): 563-568. Rouse, H. (1937). Modern conceptions of the mechanics of fluid turbulence. Trans. ASCE 102: 463-543. Rouse, H. (1938). Fluid mechanics for hydraulic engineers. Dover: New York. Rouse, H. (1946). Elementary mechanics of fluids. Wiley: New York. Rouse, H., ed. (1950). Engineering hydraulics. Wiley: New York. Rouse, H., Ince, S. (1957). History of hydraulics. Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research: Iowa. Rouse, H. (1959). Advanced mechanics of fluids. Wiley: New York. Rouse, H. (1976). Hydraulics in the United States 1776-1976. University of Iowa: Iowa.
