PHOENICS软件的创始人Splading教授获得2010年机械工程最高奖富兰克林奖

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PHOENICS软件的创始人Splading教授获得2010年机械工程最高奖富兰克林奖

December 28, 2009

PHOENICS软件的创始人布赖恩教授斯伯丁，已经被授予2010年机械工程本杰明·富兰克林章，并且在2010年4月美国宾夕法尼亚州费城举行的大会上成为富兰克林奖章得主。

Professor Spalding joins Franklin Institute Laureates including Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Pierre and Marie Curie, Alexander Graham Bell, Rudolf Diesel and Stephen Hawking. Professor Spalding has expressed himself as “delighted but amazed” to be so honoured and to join such “awesome” company.

The Franklin Institute Awards date back to 1824. Recipients are selected by an all-volunteer Committee on Science and the Arts who award medals in Computer and Cognitive Sciences, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Science, Electrical Engineering, Life Science, Mechanical Engineering and Physics (http://ww.fi.edu/franklinawards/). Potential recipients have their work evaluated for its “uncommon insight, skill or creativity, as well as its impact on future research or application to benefit the public”. The awards are intended to provide public recognition and encouragement of excellence in science and technology.

The citations for Professor Spalding’s award are:

Scientific citation: “For his seminal contributions to computational fluid dynamics (CFD), including the Finite-Volume methodology, SIMPLE algorithm, and standardization of the k-e (epsilon) model, and creating the practice of CFD in industry, thus paving the path for its widespread application “

Lay Citation: “For his seminal contributions to the computer modelling of fluid flow, creating the practice of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in industry, and paving the path for the widespread application of CFD in the design of objects from airplanes to heart valves.”

Professor Spalding is Managing Director of Concentration Heat and Momentum (CHAM) Limited, a company located in Wimbledon Village for over 30 years. He is the creator of the PHOENICS computer-software code which uses Computational Fluid Dynamics to model heat transfer, fluid flow, chemical reaction and stresses in solids. Until he retired, Professor Spalding was Professor of Heat Transfer and Head of Computational Fluid Dynamics at Imperial College London where he enjoyed working with his many students, with whom he is still in contact, in the fields mentioned above.

The Award Ceremony will take place in the Rotunda of the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial at the Franklin Institute on April 29 2010. The presentation forms part of a week of activities during which Laureates will participate in educational programs including a symposium at a local institute held in Professor Spalding’s honour