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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Milton Van Dyke
| image = Milton D. Van Dyke.jpg
| image_size = 148px
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| birth_date= {{birth date|1922|8|1|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Chicago]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2010|5|10|1922|8|1}}
| nationality = American
| field = [[Fluid dynamics]]
| work_institution = [[Stanford University]]
| alma_mater = [[Harvard University]] [[California Institute of Technology]]
| thesis_title = A Study Of Second-Order Supersonic Flow
| thesis_year = 1949
| doctoral_advisor = [[Paco Lagerstrom]]
| doctoral_students = [[Ali H. Nayfeh]] [[Ramesh K. Agarwal]]
| known_for = [[Fluid dynamics]] [[Potential flow around a circular cylinder#Van Dyke flows|Van Dyke flows]]
| prizes = • [[Fulbright Award|Fulbright Award for Research]] (1954)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4302/ch2.10.htm | publisher=[[NASA]] | title=SP-4302 Adventures in Research: A History of Ames Research Center 1940–1965. Part II : A New World Of Speed : 1946–1958. 1954–1957 | accessdate=2009-02-21 }}</ref> • [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] (1954)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/15049-milton-denman-van-dyke | publisher=[[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]] | title=Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation: Milton Denman Van Dyke | accessdate=2009-02-21 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603234253/http://www.gf.org/fellows/15049-milton-denman-van-dyke | archivedate=2011-06-03 }}</ref> • [[Otto Laporte Award]] ([[American Physical Society|APS]], 1986)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/awards/laporte.cfm | publisher=[[American Physical Society]] | title=Otto Laporte Award | accessdate=2009-02-21 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202224934/http://www.aps.org./programs/honors/awards/laporte.cfm | archivedate=2008-12-02 }}</ref> • Fluid Dynamics Award ([[American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics|AIAA]], 1997)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.aiaa.org/tc/fd/past_awards.html | publisher=[[American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics]] | title=Fluid Dynamics Award Past Recipients | accessdate=2009-02-21 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080929204640/http://www.aiaa.org/tc/fd/past_awards.html | archivedate=2008-09-29 }}</ref>
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'''Milton Denman Van Dyke''' (August 1, 1922 – May 10, 2010) was Professor of the Department of [[Aeronautics]] and [[Astronautics]] at [[Stanford University]].<ref name="McNally">{{cite news | url=https://news.stanford.edu/2010/05/31/milton-van-dyke-influential-fluid-mechanics-professor-dead-87/ | title=Milton Van Dyke, influential fluid mechanics professor, dead at 87 | work=Stanford Report|publisher= Stanford University | date=May 31, 2010 | author-first=Jess |author-last=McNally | accessdate=2010-06-10 }}</ref> He was known for his work in [[fluid dynamics]], especially with respect to the use of [[perturbation analysis]] in [[aerodynamics]]. His often-cited book ''[[An Album of Fluid Motion]]'' presents a collection of about 400 selected [[black-and-white|black-and-white photographs]] of [[flow visualization]] in experiments, received – on his request – from researchers all over the world.<ref name=Schwartz>{{Cite journal | journal=Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics | volume=34 | pages=1–18 | year=2002 | doi=10.1146/annurev.fluid.34.081701.124242 | title=Milton Van Dyke, the man and his work | first=Leonard W. | last=Schwartz | issue=34 |bibcode = 2002AnRFM..34....1S | doi-access=free }}</ref>

Together with [[William R. Sears|Bill Sears]], Milton founded the ''[[Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics]]'', in 1969,<ref name=Schwartz/> for which he was an [[editing|editor]] until 2000.<ref name="McNally"/>

==Biography==

He was the son of James and Ruth (Barr) Van Dyke.<ref name="whos_who_1980">Gregory, J. (1980) ''Who's Who in Engineering'', 4th ed., American Association of Engineering Societies.</ref>

He studied Engineering Sciences at [[Harvard University]], from 1940 until 1943. Thereafter he started working at [[NACA]] [[NASA Ames Research Center|Ames Laboratory]]. After the Second World War, Milton went to [[Caltech]], to obtain his MS in 1947 and [[PhD]] ([[magna cum laude]]) in 1949. A second period at Ames Laboratory followed. During this period, Milton was awarded a [[Guggenheim fellowship]] and [[Fulbright Award|Fulbright grant]], which he used to spend the 1954–55 academic year working with [[George Batchelor]] at [[Cambridge University]]. He was a visiting professor at the University of Paris in the 1958–59 academic year,<ref name="whos_who_1980"/> then in 1959 he was appointed as a professor at the new Aerodynamics department of Stanford University.<ref name=Schwartz/><ref>{{cite web | url=https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tw248mt9298/aahistory.pdf | title=From Durand to Hoff: The history of aeronautics at Stanford | publisher=Stanford University |author-first=Brian |author-last=Cantwell |date=April 26, 2008| accessdate=2017-12-23 }}</ref>

He married Sylvia Jean Agard Adams in 1962 and the couple would eventually have six children, three of whom were triplets.<ref name="whos_who_1980"/> In 1976, he was elected to the [[National Academy of Engineering]].<ref name="Leonard">{{cite book| title=Memorial Tributes | editor=National Academy of Engineering | publisher=National Academies Press | year=2011 | volume=15 | pages=396–402 | isbn=978-0-309-21306-6 |url=https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/13160/chapter/66#397 | chapter=Milton D. Van Dyke: 1922–2010 | last1=Schwartz |first1=Leonard | last2=Bradshaw |first2=Peter | last3=Vincenti | first3=Walter G. }}</ref>

He was the director of Parabolic Press, an independent publisher of engineering books whose releases included a second edition of his own ''[[Perturbation Methods in Fluid Mechanics]]'' (1975) and ''[[An album of fluid motion]]'' (1982). He insisted on keeping the prices low so that students could afford the books.<ref name="Bloom">{{cite journal |last1=Bloom |first1=Martin H. |title=Book Review -An Album of Fluid Motion, assembled by Milton Van Dyke |journal=AIAA Journal |date=July 1984 |volume=22 |issue=7 |pages=1024 |doi=10.2514/3.48547 |bibcode=1984AIAAJ..22.1024B |url=https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/3.48547?journalCode=aiaaj |access-date=22 February 2023|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="McNally"/>

The first issue in 2014 of the ''[[Journal of Engineering Mathematics]]'' was a special issue to honour Milton Van Dyke and his work.<ref>{{cite journal | title=Preface to the special issue honouring Professor Milton Van Dyke | first=Leonard W. | last=Schwartz | year=2014 | doi=10.1007/s10665-013-9643-8 | journal=Journal of Engineering Mathematics | volume=84 | issue=1 | pages=1–3 | bibcode=2014JEnMa..84....1S | s2cid=119829546 }}</ref>

==Books==
*{{Cite book | last=Van Dyke | first=Milton | year=1964 | title=Perturbation Methods in Fluid Mechanics | publisher=Academic Press | edition=1st | isbn=9780127130507 | location=Stanford }}<ref>{{cite journal |title=Perturbation Methods in Fluid Mechanics (Review) |journal=Nature |date=April 1965 |volume=206 |issue=4981 |pages=226–227 |doi=10.1038/206226b0 |s2cid=4185247 |language=en |issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free }}</ref>
* {{cite book | last=Van Dyke | first=Milton | title=Perturbation methods in fluid mechanics | year=1975 | edition=2nd, annotated | isbn=9780915760015 | publisher=The Parabolic Press }}
* {{cite book | last=Van Dyke | first=Milton | title=[[An album of fluid motion]] | year=1982 | isbn=9780915760022 | publisher=The Parabolic Press }}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{MathGenealogy|id=37580}}

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[[Category:Aerodynamicists]]
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[[Category:Engineers from Illinois]]
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