STREETER

STREETER 21.11. 1909 Marcellus MI/USA Ann Arbor MI/USA Victor Lyle Streeter graduated from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, with the ScD degree in 1934. He then moved to Germany to complete his education. Upon return to the USA in 1937 he joined the US Bureau of Reclamation USBR as associate engineer until 1939, becoming until 1941 associate hydraulic engineer within the Department of State, of the US-Mexican International Boundary Commission, from when he was associate hydraulics professor, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago IL until 1945, and later professor of fluid mechanics. He re-joined as hydraulics professor the University of Michigan in 1954, retiring in 1976. In parallel he was a consultant in fluid mechanics for the Armour Research Foundation. He also was a Fulbright visiting professor to two universities of New Zealand in the 1950s. Streeter was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME in 1979, and in 1982 was the third Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Lecturer, the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE. Streeter made a lasting impact on the field of computational fluid transients. With Evan B. Wylie (1931-) he wrote three books on this topic, namely Hydraulic transients in 1967, Fluid transients in 1982, and Fluid transients in systems in 1993. A paper dealing with computer analysis on water hammer was published as early as in 1963, thereby popularizing the computer-based method of characteristics combined with specific time intervals. At that time the predicted variables did not accurately attenuate because of numerical interpolations. In the mid-1960s, the effect of turbo-machinery on water hammer analysis was accounted for, given its relevance for the industry. Anonymous (1938). Victor L. Streeter. Civil Engineering 8(1): 51. P Anonymous (1954). Streeter, Victor L. Who’s who in engineering 7: 2348. Lewis: New York. Anonymous (1983). V.L. Streeter. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering ASCE 109(11): 1407. P Streeter, V.L. (1936). Frictional resistance in artificially roughened pipes. Trans. ASCE 101: 681-713. Streeter, V.L., ed. (1961). Handbook of fluid dynamics. McGraw-Hill: New York. Streeter, V.L. (1964). Waterhammer analysis of pipelines. Journal of the Hydraulics Division ASCE 90(HY4): 151-172. Wiggert, D.C., Wylie, E.B. (2003). A tribute to Victor L. Streeter. Henry P.G. Darcy and other pioneers in hydraulics: 160-173, G.O. Brown, ed. ASCE: Reston VA.