Frank M. White

Frank M. White is an American engineer and Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at the University of Rhode Island. He is a professor in the Mechanical Engineering department as well as the Ocean Engineering department – which he helped found in 1966 as the first department of Ocean Engineering in the United States. He is the author of the popular engineering textbook "Fluid Mechanics" (now in its 8th edition) as well as three other textbooks on the topics of fluid mechanics and heat transfer.[1]

Frank M. White
Born
Frank M. White
NationalityUnited States
EducationPh.D
Alma materGeorgia Institute of Technology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Home townNarragansett, Rhode Island
Scientific career
FieldsEngineering

He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He was editor-in-chief of the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering from 1979 until in 1991 he became chairman of the ASME Publication Committee and of the Board of Editors. In 1991 he also received the ASME Fluids Engineering Award.[1]

Publications
  • Fluid Mechanics (1998–2015)
  • Viscous Fluid Flow (1991–2011)
  • Heat and Mass Transfer (1988)
  • Heat Transfer (1983)

References
  1. White, Frank M. (2011), Fluid Dynamics 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 978-0-07-352934-9
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