Wu Zhonghua, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Wu Zhonghua

Chinese physicist

Date of Birth: 27-Jul-1917

Place of Birth: Shanghai, China

Date of Death: 19-Sep-1992

Profession: physicist

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Wu Zhonghua

  • Wu Zhonghua (Chinese: ???; 27 July 1917 – 19 September 1992), also known as Chung-Hua Wu, was a Chinese physicist.
  • He was a National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) researcher, Tsinghua University professor, and Founding Director of the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
  • He pioneered the general theory of three-dimensional flow for turbomachinery, which has been widely used in aircraft engine designs.
  • Wu and his wife Li Minhua were both academicians of the CAS. Born in Shanghai, Wu's college education at Tsinghua University was interrupted by the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • He graduated from the temporary National Southwestern Associated University and was awarded a Boxer Indemnity Scholarship to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.
  • After earning his Ph.D., he joined the NACA, the predecessor of NASA, where he developed the theory of three-dimensional flow. After the outbreak of the Korean War, Wu and his wife returned to China in 1954.
  • He established China's first turbomachinery program at Tsinghua and developed a nonorthogonal curvilinear coordinate system to improve computational accuracy.
  • After suffering setbacks during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, his research resumed in the 1970s.
  • In 1980, he became the Founding Director of the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of the CAS.

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