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Department of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801
Ronald J. Adrian was educated at the University of Minnesota (B.M.E. 1967, M.S. 1969). and at Churchill College, Cambridge, where he received his Ph.D. degree in physics in 1972. He is a member of Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where he holds the Hoeft Chair in Engineering and is the Director of the Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Flow.
His research interests are the space-time structure of turbulent fluid motion and the development of techniques, both experimental and mathematical, to explore this structure. Methods to which he has made fundamental contributions are the laser Doppler velocimeter technique, the method of particle image velocimetery and the stochastic estimation method.
He co-edited Experiments in Fluids, and a ten volume series on Laser Techniques in Fluid Mechanics. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor of J. Fluid Mechanics , Chairman of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, and Chairman of the US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.
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