Hermann Schlichting

Hermann Schlichting
Born	(1907-09-22)22 September 1907 Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Flow Research
Thesis	About the plane wind shadow problem  (1930)
Doctoral advisor	Ludwig Prandtl Albert Betz

Hermann Schlichting (22 September 1907 – 15 June 1982) was a German fluid dynamics engineer.

Life and work

Hermann Schlichting studied from 1926 till 1930 mathematics, physics and applied mechanics at the

, where in 1938 he became a professor.

After joining in October 1937 Schlichting worked on setting up the Aerodynamic Institute at the Braunschweig-Waggum airport.

Some features of a boundary layer transitioning from a laminar to turbulent state has been named after him, the Tollmien–Schlichting waves.

Prof. Schlichting became an emeritus professor on 30 September 1975 at TU Braunschweig.

Achievements

• 1953 Medal "50th Anniversary of Powered Flight“ from National Aeronautical Association, Washington D.C.
• 1968 Dr.-Ing. E.h. at Technical University Munich
• 1969
  DGLR
  )
• 1972
  Bundesverdienstkreuz
• 1976 Honorary member of Deutschen Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (
  DFVLR
  )
• 1980 "Von-Kármán-Medaille“ from Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD), Paris

Books

• Hermann Schlichting, Erich Truckenbrodt: Aerodynamik des Flugzeugs Springer, Berlin 1967
• Hermann Schlichting, Klaus Gersten, Boundary Layer Theory, 8th ed. Springer-Verlag 2004,
  ISBN 81-8128-121-7
• Hermann Schlichting, Klaus Gersten, Egon Krause, Herbert, jun. Oertel: Grenzschicht-Theorie Springer, Berlin 2006,
  ISBN 3-540-23004-1

External links

• Hermann Schlichting at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Preceded by Albert Betz

Director of Aerodynamic Laboratory, University of Göttingen 1956—1975

Succeeded by Boris Laschka