Brian Spalding

Dudley Brian Spalding, FRS FREng^[1] (born 9 January 1923, died 27 November 2016) was Professor of Heat Transfer and Head of the Computational Fluid Dynamics Unit at Imperial College, London. In late 1970s and early 1980s, D Brian Spalding was the Reilly Professor of Combustion Engineering at Purdue University. He authored a book on "Combustion and Heat Transfer," for publication by Pergamon Press during this time. He is one of the founders of, and influential persons in, the development of computational fluid dynamics (CFD).^[2] In 1983, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.^[3]

Spalding was born at New Malden, Surrey, England. He received his BA degree in Engineering Science from Oxford University in 1944 and PhD from Cambridge University in 1952. He is the founder of the company Concentration Heat And Momentum Limited, (CHAM) specialising in computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer processes.^[4] CHAM's major product is the widely used PHOENICS CFD code. Spalding himself is the main creator of, and contributor to, PHOENICS.

Together with his student Suhas Patankar he developed the SIMPLE algorithm, a widely used numerical procedure to solve the Navier-Stokes equations.

CHAM

Spalding formed [Concentration Heat and Momentum (CHAM) Limited in 1974. From the outset commercial CFD services were provided to industrial and governmental clients based on the technology that had emerged from his research group at Imperial College in the late 1960s. Later these services were based on PHOENICS, the first commercially available Computational Fluid Dynamics Software, which he created and released in 1980.

Between 1969 and 1980, CHAM developed numerous application-specific CFD computer codes. In 1978, Spalding conceived the idea of a single CFD code capable of handling all fluid-flow processes. Consequently, CHAM abandoned the policy of developing individual application-specific CFD codes, and during late 1978 the company began creating the world’s first general-purpose CFD code, PHOENICS, which is an acronym for Parabolic, Hyperbolic Or Elliptic Numerical Integration Code Series. The initial creation of PHOENICS was largely the work of Spalding and Harvey Rosten, and the code was launched commercially in 1981, and so here for the first time, a single CFD code was to be used for all thermo-fluids problems.

Biographical material

Selected books

B. E. Launder and D. B. Spalding, Mathematical Models of Turbulence, Academic Press (1972).
D. B. Spalding and E. H. Cole, Engineering Thermodynamics, 3rd ed., Hodder Arnold (1973).
D. B. Spalding, Combustion and Mass Transfer, Elsevier (1978).

Honours and awards

Max Jakob Memorial Award, 1978
Fellowship of the Royal Society, 1983
Fellowship^[5] of the Royal Academy of Engineering,^[6] 1989
Global Energy Prize, 2009
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering of The Franklin Institute, 2010

References

Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1983

Fellows	Martin Aitken David Attenborough Patrick Bateson Edward Cocking Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar Pierre Deslongchamps William Douglas R. John Ellis Malcolm Ferguson-Smith Alan Fersht William Alexander Gambling Ian Graham Gass Ian Gibbons George Gray Ray Guillery Richard Henderson Peter Higgs Christopher Hooley Anthony James Peter Lawrence John Lawson George Lusztig C David Marsden Donald Metcalf Keith O'Nions Ted Paige Michael Pepper Michael J. D. Powell Philip Randle Ivan Roitt Alan Sargeson Dennis Sciama Ian Sneddon Edwin Southern Brian Spalding Nigel Unwin Ian Ward Felix Weinberg Charles Weissmann John Westcott Dudley Williams

Statute 12	Margaret Thatcher

Foreign	Anatole Abragam G. Evelyn Hutchinson Jean Leray Henry Stommel Frank Westheimer

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 108445553 LCCN: n79062825 ISNI: 0000 0001 1081 0304 SUDOC: 071432604

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