Michael Paidoussis
Fellow
Current Employer
McGill University
Election Year
1986
Academy
Academy of Science
Discipline
Engineering
Department
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Keywords
Fluid-structure interactions, flow-induced vibrations, nonlinear dynamics
Michael Paidoussis is an international authority on elastic structures which vibrate due to an internal or an external flow. His work has been applied to determine the stability of bundles of fuel rods in nuclear reactors, to the tubes in heat exchangers, to off-shore structures, and to elastic tubes through which blood or other liquids flow. His approach to these problems has combined theory and experiment in close combination and he has been successful in predicting the onset, the mode and the frequency of the instabilities.