In Memoriam of the 30th TC Chair, Dr. Malcolm J. Andrews
Sponsoring Technical Committee: MFTC
At this special moment of FED's 100th anniversary, former mentees and colleagues of the late chair of MFTC, Dr. Malcolm J. Andrews, are invited to share cherished memories about him, which shaped and continues to shape the legacy of fluids engineering community at ASME. After completing his graduate studies at Imperial College in London (1986), Malcolm chose to pursue his scientific career across the Atlantic Ocean. Malcolm started as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University (1986–1991), and then as a faculty member at Texas A&M University, where he rose to the rank of a full professor (1991–2005). He then moved to the Los Alamos National Laboratory (2005), where he advanced to a leadership role, initially as a National Security Fellow, and then in a series of roles with ever growing responsibilities. Malcolm was a devoted and active member of the ASME FED for three decades including his leadership with the Journal of Fluids Engineering as the Editor. Most notable was his commitment to the multiphase flow community within FED. In 2000, he began co-organizing the "International Symposium on Numerical Methods for Multiphase Flow" and continued to do so for over 15 years. He then served as Vice Chair and Chair of the MFTC from 2006 to 2010.In the spirit of celebrating Malcolm's scientific achievements and exceptional mentorship dedicated to multiphase flow community, this MFTC special symposium compromises invited speeches with memorial notes and research papers that complement Malcolm's contributions to experiments and simulations in key areas like Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities, buoyancy-shear-driven flows, multiphase flows, and more.
In Memoriam of Professor Frank White
Sponsoring Technical Committee: FASTC
Prof. Frank White was an American engineer and Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at the University of Rhode Island. He was 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 was the author of the popular engineering textbook "Fluid Mechanics" (now in its 9th edition) as well as three other textbooks on the topics of fluid mechanics and heat transfer. White was 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.