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Moshe Matalon (engineer)

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Moshe Matalon
Born (1949-02-25) February 25, 1949 (age 75)
Egypt
Alma materTel Aviv University
Cornell University
Known forMatalon–Matkowsky–Clavin–Joulin theory
Scientific career
FieldsCombustion
Fluid dynamics
InstitutionsNew York University Tandon School of Engineering
Northwestern University
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Thesis Diffusion Flames in a Chamber for Large Activation Energy  (1977)
Doctoral advisorGeoffrey S. S. Ludford

Moshe Matalon is an Israeli-American mechanical engineer and applied mathematician, currently the Caterpillar Distinguished Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[1][2]

Biography

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He finished his bachelor's and master's degree from Tel Aviv University in 1973 and completed his PhD in 1977 from Cornell University, under the supervision of Geoffrey S. S. Ludford. He worked at New York University Tandon School of Engineering from 1978 to 1980 and then at Northwestern University from 1980 to 2006. He finally moved to University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2007. His research area includes combustion and fluid dynamics.

Matalon was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1995, Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP) in 1999, Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in 2012, and Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2018. He is an Associate of the UIUC Centre of Advanced Study and recipient of several awards, including the AIAA Pendray Aerospace Literature Award (2010), the AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award (2016), the Numa Manson medal of the Institute for the Dynamics of Explosions and Reaction Systems (2017), and the Ya. B. Zeldovich Gold Medal of the Combustion Institute (2020). Matalon also serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Combustion Theory and Modelling.[3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Moshe Matalon". illinois.edu. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  2. ^ "Moshe Matalon". Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  3. ^ "APS Fellowship".
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