Fields Fluid mechanics Role Professor | Name John Miles Known for wind-wave growth model | |
Born 1 December 1920
Cincinnati, Ohio ( 1920-12-01 ) Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
UCLA (1945–1961)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego (1964–2008) Alma mater California Institute of Technology Notable awards Timoshenko Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1982)
Otto Laporte Award (1983) Died October 20, 2008, Santa Barbara, California, United States Education California Institute of Technology (1944) Residence La Jolla, San Diego, California, United States Books Integral Transforms in Applied Mathematics, The Potential Theory of Unsteady Supersonic Flow Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada, Timoshenko Medal | ||
Doctoral students Herbert Huppert | ||
John Wilder Miles (December 1, 1920 – October 20, 2008) was a research professor emeritus of applied mechanics and geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He was well regarded for his pioneering work in theoretical fluid mechanics, and made fundamental contributions to understanding how wind energy transfers to waves.
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Career
The first 20 years of Miles' research was devoted to electrical and aeronautical engineering. He turned his mathematical abilities to geophysical fluid dynamics when he joined Scripps, and made numerous contributions to all aspects of fluid dynamics, including supersonic flow, ocean tides, the stability of currents and water waves and their nonlinear interactions, as well as extensive work in the application of mathematical methods.
Throughout his career, he wrote more than 400 publications. He has the unique distinction of being the only fluid mechanics researcher to have published more than hundred scientific research articles (117) in the elite and prestigious Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
A postdoctoral fellowship has been established in his honor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.