Professional Biography of Martin Lesser
Education
Graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School, NYC 1956
B.S. degree in Engineering Physics, New York University 1960
Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University 1966
Employment History
Member of Technical Staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories 1966-1971
Research Scientist, Institute Cerac SA, Lausanne Switzerland 1971-1975
Docent in Machine Construction, Technical University of LuleŒ, Sweden 1975-1976
Professor of Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics, Technical University of LuleŒ, 1977-1984
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and
applied Mechanics of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., 1984-1987
Professor of Mechanics of the Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm Sweden, 1987-present
(Chairman 1987-1992)
A Selection of Publications
Related to the modelling of mechanical systems
The geometrical interpretation of Kane's Equations
Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A (1992) vol. 436 pp 69-87
Nonlinear Modeling of Complex Mechanical Systems
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
(1994) vol. 4 pp 521-551
Related to Liquid Impact and Shock Waves in Liquids
J.E. Field and M.B. Lesser. On the Mechanics of High Speed Liquid Jets. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 1977 357 pp143-166.
Analytical Solutions of Liquid Drop Impact Problems. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 1981 pp 289-308.
M.B. Lesser and J.E. Field. The Impact of Compressible Liquids. Annual Revue of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 15, 1983 pp97-122.
J.E. Field, M.B. Lesser and J.P. Dear. Studies of two-dimensional liquid-wedge impact and their relevance to liquid-drop impact problems Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 1985 pp 225-249.
On the study of High Speed Liquid Impact. Transactions of the 18 International Symposium on Shock Waves held at Sendai Japan, July 1991, published by Springer Verlag, K. Takayama Editor.
N.Apazidis & M.B. Lesser. On generation and convergence of polygonal-shaped shock waves.
JFM contents page
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1996 vol 309 pp 301-320.
Related to Acoustics and Matched Asymptotic Expansions
M.B. Lesser and A.R. Seebass. The Structure of a Weak Shock Wave Undergoing Reflexion From a Wall. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1968 31 pp 501-528
M.B. Lesser and J.A. Lewis. Applications of Matched Asymptotic Expansions Methods to Acoustics I. The Webster Horn Equation and the stepped Duct. Journal of the Acoustics Society of America 1972 51 pp 1664-1669.
M.B. Lesser and D.G. Crighton. Physical Acoustics and The Methods of Matched Asymtotic Expansions. Volume 11 of Physical Acoustics 1975, W. Mason and R. Thurston Editors. Published by Academic Press.
Related to the Mechanics of Hearing
M.B. Lesser and D.A. Berkley. Fluid Mechanics of the Cochlea. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1972 51 pp 497-512
Published Books
Logo for Micros. Butterworths 1985.
The Analysis of Complex Nonlinear Mechanical Systems: A computer algebra assisted approach.
Book published by World Scientific Press, Singapore