Paco Axel Lagerstrom

Biography He was born on February 24, 1914, in Oskarshamn, Sweden.

Lagerstrom earned bachelor's and master's degrees, in 1935 and 1939 respectively, at the Stockholm University. While he had already published significant results in pure mathematics, he was, by this time, firmly interested in its applications to fluid dynamic and aerodynamic problems. In 1946, Lagerstrom was recruited by Hans Liepmann to the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Caltech.

Publications His book "Laminar flow theory", initially published in 1964 in the Theory of Laminar flows, edited by F.K.Moore, is still considered as the standard textbook for fluid mechanics.