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Anthony Leonard is the Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology. After receiving a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering at Caltech in 1959, he attended graduate school at Stanford University, receiving a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1963 with a specialty in nuclear engineering. His research experience in a government/industrial setting includes three years at the RAND Corporation and twelve years at NASA's Ames Research Center in the Computational Fluid Dynamics Branch. Dr. Leonard's academic career includes seven years at Stanford as Assistant and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and one year as Visiting Professor of Aeronautics at Caltech. For the past 20 years he has been at Caltech. His visiting appointments include Gastdozent Professor at the Institute of Fluid Dynamics, ETH-Zentrum, Zurich and Visiting Scholar, Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.Computational fluid dynamics, unsteady and separated flows, turbulence and mixing.

Professor Leonard's interests are in the area of computational fluid dynamics and its application to a wide variety of flows including turbulence, transitional flows, bluff-body aerodynamics, and flow-induced vibration. He has worked on developments in Lagrangian vortex methods, spectral methods, and in the technique of large-eddy simulation. He has also been involved in the application of dynamical systems theory to fluid transport and mixing.