Beverley McKeon

Beverley J. McKeon is a physicist and aerospace engineer specializing in fluid dynamics, and in particular in turbulent flows near walls.[1][2] She was Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology.[3] Currently she is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.

Education and career

McKeon is originally from the Surrey, England, the daughter of a flight engineer.[2] She earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Cambridge in 1995 and 1996, respectively. She went to Princeton University for graduate study in mechanical and aerospace engineering, earning a second master's degree in 1999 and completing her Ph.D. in 2003,[4] under the supervision of Alexander Smits.[5]

After postdoctoral research as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow at Imperial College London,[5] she joined the California Institute of Technology faculty in 2006. She was promoted to professor in 2011 and was named von Kármán Professor in 2017.[4]

Recognition

In 2016, McKeon was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination by the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, "for experimental and theoretical contributions to advancing the understanding of wall turbulence and for elegant interdisciplinary approaches to modeling and flow manipulation".[6] In 2020, she became a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.[7]

References

1. Perkins, Robert (November 5, 2019), "Unlocking Turbulence: Caltech engineer exploits the repeating structure of turbulence to create a more complete model of the phenomenon", The Caltech Weekly
2. Oliwenstein, Lori (Winter 2011), "Roughing it: Beverley McKeon has made a career of creating turbulence—and that's a good thing, at least when it comes to golf balls and insect-sized aircraft" (PDF), Engineering & Science, Caltech Magazine: 16–21
3. "Beverley J. McKeon: Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics", Faculty, Caltech Division of Engineering & Applied Science, retrieved 2020-07-11
4. "Beverley J. McKeon", Caltech Directory, California Institute of Technology, retrieved 2020-07-11
5. SMU Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar announcement and speaker biography, Southern Methodist University, October 2011, retrieved 2020-07-11
6. APS Fellows Nominated by DFD: 2016, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, retrieved 2020-07-11
7. AIAA Announces Its Class of 2020 Fellows and Honorary Fellows, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, February 3, 2020, retrieved 2020-07-11

External links

• McKeon Research Group