Frank M. White

Frank M. White
Frank M. White
Born	September 26, 1933; Augusta, Georgia, U.S.
Died	March 12, 2022; Narragansett, Rhode Island, U.S.
Education	Ph.D
Alma mater	Georgia Institute of Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
	Scientific career
Fields	Engineering

Frank M. 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.^[1]

He 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.^[1]

Publications

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

References

1 2 White, Frank M. (2011), Fluid Dynamics 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 978-0-07-352934-9

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[Textbook-1] 1 2 White, Frank M. (2011), Fluid Dynamics 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 978-0-07-352934-9

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