A. K. M. Fazle Hussain (born 20 January 1943, in

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) is a professor of

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Education

Hussain graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering from

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in 1963. He went on to attend Stanford University, where he studied under William Craig Reynolds, and received his MS and PhD in mechanical engineering in 1966 and 1969. Afterwards, Hussain was a post-doctoral fellow at the

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with Leslie S. G. Kovasznay and Stanley Corrsin.

Career

Hussain was a professor of mechanical engineering at

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from 1976 to 2013. More recently, he was also a professor in the Earth & atmospheric science and physics departments from 2007 to 2013. At UH, he held the Cullen Professorship in mechanical engineering. In 2001, Hussain was inducted into the

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for "fundamental experiments and concepts concerning important structures in turbulence, vortex dynamics, and acoustics, and for new turbulence measurement techniques." He is also a member of the advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.

Honors and awards

* Freeman Scholar Award of

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in 1984 * Fluids Engineering Award of

in 2000 * Fluid Dynamics Award of

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in 2002

Books

Nonlinear Dynamics of Structures,

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, 1991

Book chapters

* "Mechanics of Pulsatile Flows of Relevance to Cardiovascular System," in Cardiovascular Flow Dynamics and Measurements, (Eds. N.H.C. Hwang and N. Norman), University Park Press, Baltimore, pp. 541–632, 1976. * "New Aspects of Vortex Dynamics Relevant to Coherent Structures in Turbulent Flows," in Eddy Structure Identification (Ed. J.P. Bonnet) Springer, pp. 61–143. 1996. * "Genesis and Dynamics of Coherent Structures in Near-wall Turbulence: A New Look," in Self-Sustaining Mechanisms of Wall Turbulence (Ed. R. L. Panton) Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, pp. 385, (1997).

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20110927030855/http://www.egr.uh.edu/me/faculty/hussain/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Hussain, Fazle Living people Fluid dynamicists 21st-century American physicists American people of Bangladeshi descent American mechanical engineers Bangladeshi mechanical engineers Stanford University alumni Fellows of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Fellows of the American Physical Society Bangladeshi scientists Bengali scientists Bangladeshi physicists 1943 births Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology alumni