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Coleman Dupont Donaldson (September 22, 1922 – August 7, 2009) was a fluid physicist and aeronautical engineer who specialized in turbulent flow and computational fluid dynamics. He made broad contributions during his career in turbulent transport, supersonic flow, and armor.[3]

Coleman Dupont Donaldson
Born	(1922-09-22)September 22, 1922[1] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	August 7, 2009(2009-08-07) (aged 86)[2] Newport News, Virginia
Alma mater	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Princeton University [2]
Scientific career
Fields	Fluid mechanics
Doctoral advisor	Luigi Crocco

In 1942 he received a bachelor's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Afterwards he worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.[1] While serving in the Army Air Corps in 1945–1946 he was assigned to Bell Aircraft, where he worked on the development of the X-1 and X-2.[2] Aftwards he worked at NACA again and completed his doctorate at Princeton under Luigi Crocco in 1957. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979. He was a member of the Du Pont family and a grandson of T. Coleman du Pont.[3]

References

External links

• Coleman Dupont Donaldson at National Academies Press

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