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Dr. Henry "Harry" McDonald FREng (born in Glasgow, Scotland) is the Distinguished Professor and Chair of Computational Engineering at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga. He holds a BSc. and a DSc. from the University of Glasgow. ==Career== McDonald was educated there in aeronautical engineering and worked in the U.K. aerospace industry on a number of both civil and military aircraft before immigrating to the U.S. In the U.S. he became a U.S. citizen and was a staff member in large corporate research laboratory, United Technologies Research Center, where he concentrated on turbomachinery and what eventually became known as Computational Fluid Dynamics. McDonald followed this by forming a small R&D company in Connecticut, Scientific Research Associates. It was while at Scientific Research Associates that McDonald, with Roger Briley pioneered the Block Implict Method, a scheme capable of obtaining numerical solutions to systems of nonlinear multidimensional partial differential equations.〔W.R. Briley and H. McDonald, "On the Structure and Use of Linearized Block Implicit Schemes," Journal of Computational Physics, 34, 54-73 (1980)〕 He was also asked to assist the NASA team investigating the Challenger disaster. Subsequently he became a member of the Lockheed Martin team investigating a Titan motor failure. Following this period of time, McDonald held a number of academic posts at Pennsylvania State University and Mississippi State before accepting an Interagency Personnel Appointment at NASA where he was the Center Director at NASA Ames Research Laboratory from 1996 to 2002.〔http://history.arc.nasa.gov/ames_hall_of_fame.htm#mcdonald〕 During his stay at NASA, McDonald led an Aeromechanical Team investigation of a V-22 Osprey accident, reporting to the Assistant Secretary of Defense. At the request of a NASA administrator, McDonald then led a special investigation into space shuttle mishaps and this preceded the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. This particular investigation identified many of the systemic issues later cited by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. During his tenure McDonald also initiated the University Affiliated Research Center, the NASA Research Park, and the Space Science and Astrobiology Division. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry McDonald (engineer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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