Paul A. Libby

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Paul A. Libby is affiliated with the following schools: New York University Tandon School of Engineering, University of San Diego, California Institute of Technology, University of California, San Diego, Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Paul Andrews Libby was a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, San Diego, a specialist in the field of combustion and aerospace engineering. Biography Libby received his bachelor's degree in 1942 and obtained his PhD in 1949, both from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. After his bachelor's degree, he worked at Chance Vought Aircraft for two years and then served in the United States Navy during World War II until 1946 in between his Bachelors and Doctorate degrees; he was a Junior Grade Lieutenant when discharged.

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Analysis of Turbulent Boundary Layers (1974) (1259)
Turbulent Reacting Flows (1981) (974)
Turbulent Shear Flows I (1988) (450)
Unified modeling approach for premixed turbulent combustion—Part I: General formulation (1985) (390)
Countergradient Diffusion in Premixed Turbulent Flames (1981) (261)
Turbulence Production in Premixed Turbulent Flames (1981) (245)
Two-dimensional Problems in Hydrodynamics and Aerodynamics (1965) (233)
Flamelet Crossing Frequencies and Mean Reaction Rates in Premixed Turbulent Combustion (1984) (200)
Hot-Wire Anemometry (1982) (178)
Structure of laminar flamelets in premixed turbulent flames (1982) (168)
THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF SUPERSONIC COMBUSTION (1964) (165)
Implications of the laminar flamelet model in premixed turbulent combustion (1980) (149)
Strained premixed laminar flames with nonunity Lewis numbers (1983) (142)
Interaction effects in turbulent premixed flames (1976) (138)
Finite rate chemistry and presumed PDF models for premixed turbulent combustion (2006) (130)
On the prediction of intermittent turbulent flows (1975) (129)
Theoretical study of burning carbon particles (1979) (125)
On a Complete Solution of the One-Dimensional Flow Equations of a Viscous, Heat-Conducting, Compressible Gas (1949) (121)
Burning carbon particles in the presence of water vapor (1981) (121)
Temperature fluctuations in the plane turbulent wake (1974) (104)
Strained Premixed Laminar Flames Under Nonadiabatic Conditions (1983) (100)
Some perturbation solutions in laminar boundary-layer theory (1963) (99)
Heat and mass transfer at a general three- dimensional stagnation point. (1967) (99)
Theoretical Analysis of Turbulent Mixing of Reactive Gases With Application to Supersonic Combustion of Hydrogen (1962) (80)
The Interaction Between Turbulence and Chemistry in Premixed Turbulent Flames (1989) (79)
Premixed flames in stagnating turbulence part IV : A new theory for the Reynolds stresses and Reynolds fluxes applied to impinging flows (2000) (72)
Strained Premixed Laminar Flames with Two Reaction Zones (1984) (72)
A Presumed Pdf Analysis of Partially Premixed Turbulent Combustion (2000) (70)
Passage Times and Flamelet Crossing Frequencies in Premixed Turbulent Combustion (1986) (69)
Theory of normal premixed turbulent flames revisited (1985) (64)
Further solutions of the Falkner-Skan equation. (1967) (64)
The Homogeneous Boundary Layer at an Axisymmetric Stagnation Point With Large Rates of Injection (1962) (62)
Variable Density Effects in Premixed Turbulent Flames (1977) (59)
Experimental investigation of a premixed flame in an impinging turbulent stream (1994) (59)
Effects of finite reaction rate and molecular transport in premixed turbulent combustion (1979) (59)
Velocity Profiles in Turbulent Compressible Boundary Layers (1966) (58)
Hot-wire probes for measuring velocity and concentration in helium-air mixtures (1970) (57)
Experimental and theoretical studies of counterflow spray diffusion flames (1992) (54)
On Turbulent Flows with Fast Chemical Reactions. Part II. The Distribution of Reactants and Products Near a Reacting Surface (1972) (51)
Application of hot-wire anemometry and digital techniques to measurements in a turbulent helium jet (1971) (50)
Prediction of the intermittent turbulent wake of a heated cylinder (1976) (50)
Pre-mixed flames in stagnating turbulence (2001) (50)
Some Implications of Recent Theoretical Studies in Turbulent Combustion (1980) (49)
Spray structure in counterflowing streams with and without a flame (1993) (48)
Introduction to turbulence (1996) (48)
Boundary layers with small departures from the Falkner-Skan profile (1968) (47)
Characteristics of Laminar Lifted Flames in a Partially Premixed Jet (1989) (46)
Scalar dissipation and mean reaction rates in premixed turbulent combustion (2011) (46)
Turbulent Transport in Premixed Flames (1982) (45)
Premixed flames in stagnating turbulence: Part I. The general formulation for counterflowing streams and gradient models for turbulent transport (1991) (42)
Some similar laminar flows obtained by quasilinearization. (1968) (42)
Premixed flames in stagnating turbulence part II. The mean velocities and pressure and the Damköhler number (1998) (41)
Thermal mixing layer downstream of half‐heated turbulence grid (1981) (40)
Further applications of hot‐wire anemometry to turbulence measurements in helium‐air mixtures (1974) (40)
Catalytic combustion of hydrogen-air mixtures in stagnation flows (1993) (39)
Reynolds stress description of opposed and impinging turbulent jets. Part I: Closely spaced opposed jets (1993) (39)
On the Displacement Effects of Laminar Flames (1993) (38)
Premixed flames in stagnating turbulence part III—The k - ε theory for reactants impinging on a wall (1992) (38)
Temperature and intermittency in the turbulent wake of a heated cylinder (1974) (37)
A Provisional Analysis of Turbulent Boundary Layers with Injection (1955) (34)
Some perturbation solutions in laminar boundary layer theory Part 2. The energy equation (1964) (33)
Nongradient Theory for Oblique Turbulent Flames with Premixed Reactants (1981) (33)
Statistical properties of the interface in the turbulent wake of a heated cylinder (1976) (32)
A flame zone model for chemical reaction in a laminar boundary layer with application to the injection of hydrogen-oxygen mixtures (1963) (32)
Ignition, combustion, and extinction of carbon particles (1980) (32)
Measurements in the turbulent boundary layer with slot injection of helium (1977) (31)
Remarks on quasilinearization applied in boundary-layer calculations. (1966) (31)
THE DOWNSTREAM INFLUENCE OF MASS TRANSFER AT THE NOSE OF A SLENDER CONE (1962) (30)
Mean reaction rates in premixed turbulent flames (1989) (30)
THE GROWTH OF A DEPOSITED LAYER ON A COLD SURFACE. (1965) (28)
An Investigation of Laminar, Transitional, and Turbulent Heat Transfer on Blunt-Nosed Bodies in Hypersonic Flow (1960) (27)
Cylindrical premixed laminar flames (1989) (26)
Wall Shear at a Three-Dimensional Stagnation Point with a Moving Wall (1974) (26)
Boundary Layer at a Stagnation Point with Hydrogen Injection (1970) (25)
Experimental Investigation of the Downstream Influence of Stagnation-Point Mass Transfer (1961) (25)
Further results on the thermal mixing layer downstream of a turbulence grid (1981) (24)
Premixed Laminar Flames with General Rates of Strain (1987) (24)
Laminar boundary layer with hydrogen injection including multicomponent diffusion (1964) (23)
The influence of transport properties on droplet burning (1991) (23)
Droplet behavior in counterflowing streams (1989) (22)
HELIUM INJECTION INTO THE BOUNDARY LAYER AT AN AXISYMMETRIC STAGNATION POINT (1962) (22)
Conditional sampling in turbulent combustion (1982) (20)
Eigenvalues and norms arising in perturbations about the Blasius solution. (1965) (20)
Nonpremixed flames in stagnating turbulence part I— The k̃-ε̃ theory with equilibrium chemistry for the methane-air system (1995) (20)
On Turbulent Flows with Fast Chemical Reactions Part I: The Closure Problem (1972) (19)
Similar solutions for the hypersonic laminar boundary layer near a plane of symmetry (1965) (19)
Diffusion of heat downstream of a turbulence grid (1975) (19)
Asymptotic analysis of stagnating turbulent flows (1991) (19)
Numerical analysis of stagnation point flows with massive blowing (1970) (19)
Heat Transfer from Circular Cylinders at Low Reynolds Numbers. II. Experimental Results and Comparison with Theory (1967) (19)
Modified gauge for time-resolved skin-friction measurements. (1982) (19)
Extinction of premixed flames in turbulent counterflowing streams with unequal enthalpies (1996) (18)
The design of two-dimensional contraction sections (1951) (18)
Further results related to the turbulent boundary layer with slot injection of helium (1980) (18)
Turbulent Premixed Combustion in a Boundary Layer (1984) (18)
Scalar length scale variations in premixed turbulent flames (1985) (17)
Reynolds stress description of opposed and impinging turbulent jets. II. Axisymmetric jets impinging on nearby walls (1994) (16)
Method for calculation of compressible laminar boundary layer with axial pressure gradient and heat transfer (1954) (15)
Laminar flow at a three-dimensional stagnation point with large rates of injection (1976) (15)
On the Thermochemistry of Premixed Turbulent Combustion in Variable Enthalpy Systems (1986) (15)
Influences of swirl on the structure and extinction of strained premixed flames. Part II: Strong rates of rotation (1990) (14)
Further Results on the Stagnation Point Boundary Layer with Hydrogen Injection (1972) (14)
Flame Sheet Model for Stagnation Point Flows (1971) (14)
Heat Transfer to Cylinders in Nitrogen‐Helium and Nitrogen‐Neon Mixtures (1969) (14)
A Method for Analyzing the Heat Insulating Properties of the Laminar Compressible Boundary Layer (1954) (14)
An Experimental Investigation of the Isothermal Laminar Boundary Layer on a Porous Flat Plate (1952) (13)
The influence of a thermally active wall on premixed turbulent combustion (2003) (13)
Comparison between theory and experiment for turbulence in opposed streams (1993) (13)
On Turbulent Flows with Fast Chemical Reactions. Part III: Two-Dimensional Mixing with Highly Dilute Reactants (1976) (13)
Laminar boundary layer on a cone near a plane of symmetry. (1973) (13)
Stagnation Streamline Turbulence Revisited (1990) (13)
Dissociated Laminar Boundary Layers with Heterogeneous Recombination (1966) (13)
Droplet Dynamics in a Non-uniform Flow Field (1991) (12)
Study of the incompressible turbulent boundary layer with pressure gradient (1964) (12)
Secondary flows associated with a supersonic corner region. (1966) (12)
Combustion of a spherical carbon particle in slow viscous flow (1991) (12)
The turbulent premixed boundary layer with variable enthalpy (1987) (12)
Activation energy asymptotics applied to burning carbon particles. Technical summary report (1982) (11)
Premixed turbulent combustion (1991) (11)
Laminar Boundary Layer with Uniform Injection (1965) (11)
The laminar boundary layer with arbitrarily distributed mass transfer (1966) (11)
The effect of variable transport properties on a dissociated boundary layer with surface reaction (1965) (10)
Laminar boundary layer at an infinite swept stagnation line with large rates of injection (1970) (10)
SHORT COMMUNICATION BRAY - MOSS THERMOCHEMISTRY REVISITED (2002) (10)
Spray impingement on a hot surface in reacting stagnation flows (1995) (10)
Transverse Vibrations and Stability of Systems with Gyroscopic Forces (1988) (9)
Preferential entrainment in a two‐dimensional turbulent jet in a moving stream (1979) (9)
Laminar Boundary Layers with Surface Catalyzed Reactions (1966) (9)
Studies Related to Turbulent Flows Involving Fast Chemical Reactions (1975) (9)
Laminar Boundary Layer Near the Plane of Symmetry of a Hypersonic Inlet (1963) (8)
Diffusion of heat from a line source downstream of a turbulence grid. (1973) (8)
Temperature Distribution in a Porous Surface (1969) (8)
Review of Fluid Mechanics (2005) (8)
Critical study of integral methods in compressible laminar boundary layers (1952) (7)
Three-dimensional boundary layer with uniform mass transfer. (1969) (7)
THE POTENTIAL FLOW DUE TO A JET AND A STREAM WITH DIFFERENT TOTAL PRESSURES (1964) (7)
The laminar boundary layer on a blunted wedge (1969) (7)
Gravitational effects on the structure and propagation of premixed flames (1988) (7)
Studies in variable-density and reacting turbulent shear flows (1977) (7)
Heat transfer to cylinders in helium and helium-air mixtures (1971) (7)
Bray-Moss Thermochemistry Revisited (2002) (7)
The Mathematics of Finite Elements and Applications II (2009) (6)
Proceedings of the Conference on High-Speed Aeronautics, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, January 20-22, 1955 (1955) (6)
Application of quasi-linearization to an eigenvalue problem arising in boundary-layer theory (1968) (5)
Detailed similarity in the turbulent wake of a heated cylinder (1978) (5)
Von Kármán's Work: The Later Years (1952 to 1963) and Legacy (2009) (5)
Flow development in a tube with injection of a light or heavy gas (1969) (5)
Stagnation point flow with complex composition. (1968) (5)
A Non-Gradient Theory for Premixed Turbulent Flames (1980) (5)
Laminar boundary layer with complex composition. (1967) (5)
On the forces of droplets in Poiseuille flow (1990) (4)
Similarity solutions and experiment for turbulent wakes (1982) (4)
Heat Transfer to Cylinders in Binary Gas Mixtures (1971) (4)
The burning of graphite spheres with gas-phase equilibrium☆ (1987) (4)
Numerical Procedures for the Calculation of the Stresses in Monocoques IV : Influence Coefficients of Curved Bars for Distortions in Their Own Plane (1946) (4)
Premixed flames in stagnating turbulence: Part VI. Predicting the mean density and the permitted rates of strain for impinging reactant streams (2009) (4)
Reply by Author to A.F. Mills and R.B. Landis (1970) (4)
The Effect of Prandtl Number on the Theoretical Shock-Wave Thickness (1951) (4)
Spatial stability of the new solutions of the Falkner-Skan equation. (1968) (4)
Influence of initial velocity distributions on the height of methane-air nonpremixed flames (1994) (4)
A THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF HYDROGEN-AIR REACTIONS. PART I. BEHAVIOR WITH ELABORATE CHEMISTRY. Technical Report No. 250 (1961) (4)
Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer Spirally Fluted Tubing. (1984) (4)
A review of some perturbation methods in boundary layer theory (1970) (3)
A moment method for compressible laminar boundary layers and some applications (1965) (3)
Perspective and research topics (1980) (3)
Boundary conditions for some surface-catalyzed reactions (1965) (3)
Premixed combustion in laminar Couette flow (1996) (3)
Systematically reduced rate mechanisms and presumed PDF models for premixed turbulent combustion (2010) (3)
Nonsimilar flows between the solution branches of the Falkner-Skan equation. (1973) (3)
Laminartriple flames in partially premixed opposed flows (1998) (3)
Interaction of a rough subliming surface and a laminar boundary layer (1978) (3)
RECENT RESEARCH ON PREMIXED FLAMES IN STAGNATING TURBULENCE (2005) (3)
Proceedings of the 1967 Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics Institute : held at the University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, June 19, 20, 21, 1967 (1967) (3)
Counter-gradient in premixed turbulent flames (1980) (3)
Comment on “Pressure-containing correlations in variable density and turbulent reacting flows”, by P. M. Gaskell and A. K. C. Lau (1990) (3)
Review of "IUTAM Symposium on One Hundred Years of Boundary Layer Research" (2007) (2)
Laminar Boundary Layer on a Cone with Uniform Injection (1965) (2)
Partially premixed flames in stagnating turbulence: The merging of planar triple flames (2008) (2)
Idealized Two Dimensional Flames in Premixed Systems (1994) (2)
Reply to “comments on the paper: premixed flames in stagnating turbulence part V—evaluation of models for the chemical source term” by A. N. Lipatnikov (2002) (2)
Laminar boundary layers with zero wall shear, large suction, and strong adverse pressure gradients (1969) (2)
A class of solutions of the axisymmetric boundary-layer equations with mass transfer. (1968) (2)
A THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF HYDROGEN-AIR REACTIONS. PART 1. BEHAVIOR WITH ELABORATE CHEMISTRY (1961) (2)
Premixed laminar flames in impinging flows (1998) (2)
Remark on the laminar boundary layer with prescribed energy flux (1965) (2)
Hot-wire Anemometry for Turbulence Measurements in Helium-Air Mixtures (1978) (2)
An experimental and theoretical study on spray structure in two-phase counterflowing streams with and without a flame (1993) (2)
Analysis of an Active Thermal Protection System for High-Altitude Flight (1970) (2)
FLUID MECHANICS OF AXISYMMETRIC WAKES BEHIND BODIES IN HYPERSONIC FLOW (1960) (2)
On the Speed of Strained Laminar Flames in Premixed Systems (1990) (1)
Proceedings of the XIVth Combustion Research Conference (1992) (1)
Experimental and theoretical studies of spray impingement on a hot surface in reacting stagnation flows (1994) (1)
Numerical procedures for the calculation of the stresses in monocoques III : calculation of the bending moments in fuselage frames (1946) (1)
A provisional analysis of two-dimensional turbulent mixing with variable density (1973) (1)
Boundary layer at a swept stagnation line of semi-infinite extent (1970) (1)
Author's Reply to Comment by M. Vinokur (1963) (1)
Observations Concerning Supersonic Combustion (1997) (1)
Report of conference evaluation committee (1973) (1)
Handbook of Turbulence (Volume 1) (1979) (1)
SYNOPTIC : Analysis of an Active Thermal Protection System for High-Altitude Flight (1970) (1)
Theories of Turbulent Combustion in High Speed Flows (1994) (1)
Stagnation Point Boundary Layer on a Subliming Surface with Numerous Small Roughness Elements (1978) (1)
The Law of the Wake in Compressible Turbulent Boundary Layers (1959) (1)
Eigenvalues for the equation of species conservation with heterogeneous reaction (1964) (1)
Asymptotic and Computational Results for a Turbulent Jet Impinging on a Nearby Wall (1996) (1)
The structure of a one-dimensional shock wave according to the Navier-Stokes equations (1949) (0)
Interaction Effects in Premixed Turbulent Combustion. (1985) (0)
Book Reviews-Mechanics of Liquids and Gases, Sixth Edition (1996) (0)
Author's Reply to Comment by R.E. Mates (1963) (0)
Charles William Van Atta (2002) (0)
Final Report: Fundamental Studies of Spray Combustion, March 15, 1987 - July 14, 1999 (1999) (0)
Book Review: Boundary Layer Analysis (1993) (0)
“Closure strategies for turbulent and transitional flows”, Brian Launder and Neil Sandham (Eds.), Cambridge University Press (2002) (0)
Some simple surface reactions in laminar boundary layers (1968) (0)
Turbulence Interaction Effects in Turbulent Premixed Flames. (1976) (0)
PREMIXED LAMINAR FLAMES IN COUNTERFLOWING STREAMS (1988) (0)
TURBULENT SPRAYS IN STAGNATION FLOWS (1995) (0)
PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE FIN-WING INTERACTION PROBLEM (1960) (0)
Theoretical study of turbulent flow over an acoustic surface (1986) (0)
Premixed combustion in laminar couette flow : Extinction and mass burning rate (1999) (0)
Premixed turbulent combustion. Progress report, 1 December 1990--30 November 1991 (1991) (0)
Reply by Author to A.F. Mills (1971) (0)
Fundamental studies of spray combustion (1997) (0)
Theoretical Study of the Turbulent Combustion of Nitramine Propellant (2017) (0)
Compressible Turbulent Reading Flows (1999) (0)
Comment on "A Multicomponent Boundary Layer Chemically Coupled to an Ablating Surface" (1968) (0)
A preliminary investigation of the application of finite difference methods to the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations (1948) (0)
Laminar boundary layer on a cone in supersonic flow with uniform mass transfer (1966) (0)
Turbulence in Liquids (Proceedings of the Fourth Biennial Symposium on Turbulence in Liquids, September 1975) (1978) (0)
Further Developments of a Nongradient Theory of Premixed Turbulent Flames (1984) (0)
Turbulence measurements of a two-dimensional helium jet in a moving airstream (1977) (0)
Comments on the Interaction of Turbulence And Chemical Kinetics (1992) (0)
Nongradient diffusion in premixed turbulent flames (1988) (0)
Space Flight and Re-Entry Trajectories : International Symposium (1962) (0)
Theory of Idealized Coal Devolatilization (1985) (0)
Furtter Results Related to the Turbulent Boundary Layec'`^ injection of Helium (2010) (0)
Recommendations for numerical solution of reinforced-panel and fuselage-ring problems (1949) (0)
Book Review : Transport Processes in Chemically Reacting Flow Systems - Daniel E. Rosner (1988) (0)

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