John L. Lumley

John Leask Lumley (4 November 1930 – 30 May 2015) was an American fluid dynamicist and a professor at Cornell University. He is widely known for his research in turbulence and is the coauthor of A First Course in Turbulence along with Hendrik Tennekes. He was an editor of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics from 1977 to 2002.

Honors and awards Lumley received the 1990 Fluid Dynamics Prize of American Physical Society, "For his outstanding contributions to the understanding of turbulent flow, in particular, the fundamental structure of turbulent shear flows, the effects of drag-reducing additives, and his widely recognized contributions to the statistical theory of turbulence, and for his personal and intellectual leadership in the international fluid dynamics community, including his educational films and books, and his long active devotion to the Division of Fluid Dynamics of The American Physical Society." He has also received several other awards, including: Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1982 Timoshenko Medal, 1993 Recipient of two honorary doctorate degrees (honoris causa) from the French University System, in Lyon and in Poitiers. Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member of the National Academy of Engineering

Books authored Tennekes, H. and J. L. Lumley, A First Course in Turbulence, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (1972). Holmes, P., J. L. Lumley, and G. Berkooz, Turbulence, Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems and Symmetry, Cambridge University Press (1998). Lumley, J. L., Engines: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, (1999). hbk ; pbk Lumley, J. L., Still Life with Cars: An Automotive Memoir, McFarland, (2005). Lumley, J. L., Stochastic Tools in Turbulence, Dover Publications (2007). Monin, A. S., A. M. Yaglom, and J. L. Lumley, Statistical Fluid Mechanics - vol 1: Mechanics of Turbulence, The MIT Press (1971). Lumley, J. L., H. A. Panofsky, "The Structure of Atmospheric Turbulence", John Wiley & Sons, Inc, New York, NY (1964).