Professor julian szekely's research:the MIT years

摘要

This paper selectively reviews Professor Julian Szekely's research contributions in the two decades since he joined MIT.The paper describes Szekely's research strategy and style and examines how he developed understanding of disparate materials processing systems while maintaining a unifying focus on fluid flow phenomena.Szekely's interdisciplinary skill is demonstrated by his ability to simultaneously study electromagnetically driven flows,gas stirred melts,transport phenomena in plasmas,solidifying systems,multiphase phenomena in packed beds and industrial ecology.It is suggested that Szekely's work constitutes a foundation and a lasting contribution to the burgeoning discipline of mathematical modeling of materials processing.