Richard G. Folsom
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American mechanical engineer, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Richard G. Folsom's Degrees
- PhD Mechanical Engineering Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Gilman Folsom was an American mechanical engineer, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, and the twelfth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also known as the 91st president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1972–73.
Richard G. Folsom's Published Works
Published Works
- Sub‐surface pressures due to oscillatory waves (1947) (16)
- Measurement of ocean waves (1949) (13)
- Notes on the design of current meters (1948) (8)
- The transportation of sand in pipe lines (1939) (5)
- The design of propeller pumps and fans (1939) (5)
- Propeller Pumps (1935) (2)
- Jet Mixing of Two Liquids (1949) (2)
- Nuclear engineering report (1957) (1)
- Discussion of “Investigation of underwater pressure records and simultaneous sea surface Patterns” (1948) (0)
- Modified I.S.A. Orifice With Free Discharge (1937) (0)
- Nozzle Coefficients for Free and Submerged Discharge (1939) (0)
- Discussion: “Calibration of Rounded-Approach Orifices” (Downie Smith, J. F., 1934, Trans. ASME, 56, pp. 791–793) (1935) (0)
- Discussion: “Coefficients of Discharge of Sharp-Edged Concentric Orifices in Commercial 2-In., 3-In., and 4-In. Pipes for Low Reynolds Numbers Using Flange Taps” (Ambrosius, E. E., and Spink, L. K., 1947, Trans. ASME, 69, pp. 805–808) (1947) (0)
- Discussion: “An Index of Cavitation Erosion by Means of Radioisotopes” (Kerr, S. L., and Rosenberg, Kjell, 1958, Trans. ASME, 80, pp. 1308–1311) (1958) (0)
- An experimental investigation of the phenomena produced by the highly turbulent flow of water past a series of sharp obstacles (0)
- Educational and industrial impact of the NASA MATERIALS Research Center at Rensselaer (1965) (0)
- Determination of ASME Nozzle Coefficients for Variable Nozzle External Dimensions (1950) (0)
- Fluid Resistance in Pipes (1939) (0)
- NUCLEAR PROPULSION OF MERCHANT SHIPS: AN ENGINEERING SUMMARY (1955) (0)
- Closure to “Discussion of ‘Nozzle Coefficients for Free and Submerged Discharge’” (1939, Trans. ASME, 61, p. 238) (1939) (0)
- MONTHLY STATUS REPORT, MARCH 1952 (1952) (0)
- MONTHLY STATUS REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 1952 (1952) (0)
- Discussion: “Centrifugal-Pump Performance as a Function of Specific Speed” (Stepanoff, A. J., 1943, Trans. ASME, 65, pp. 629–636) (1943) (0)
- Closure to “Discussions of ‘Some Performance Characteristics of Deep-Well Turbine Pumps’” (1941, Trans. ASME, 63, pp. 248–249) (1941) (0)
- Discussion: “The Design and Performance of an Axial-Flow Fan” (Marks, Lionel S., and Weske, John R., 1934, Trans. ASME, 56, pp. 807–813) (1935) (0)
- The use of hydraulic‐laboratory methods in geophysical problems (1942) (0)
- Discussion of Frictional Resistance in Artificially Roughened Pipes by Victor L. Streeter (1936) (0)
- Discussion: “Cavitation Characteristics and Infinite-Aspect-Ratio Characteristics of a Hydrofoil Section” (Daily, J. W., 1949, Trans. ASME, 71, pp. 269–280) (1949) (0)
- Closure to “Discussion of ‘Modified I.S.A. Orifice With Free Discharge’” (1937, Trans. ASME, 59, pp. 756–757) (1937) (0)
- Nozzle Characteristics in High-Vacuum Flows—Rarefied Gas Dynamics (1952) (0)
- Discussion: “Jet-Pump Theory and Performance With Fluids of High Viscosity” (Cunningham, R. G., 1957, Trans. ASME, 79, pp. 1807–1819) (1957) (0)
- Discussion: “A Study of the Theory of Axial-Flow Pumps” (Wislicenus, G. F., 1945, Trans. ASME, 67, pp. 451–463) (1945) (0)
- Closure to “Discussions of ‘Review of the Pitot Tube’” (1956, Trans. ASME, 78, p. 1460) (1956) (0)
- Discussion: “Performance of the Periphery Pump” (Iversen, H. W., 1955, Trans. ASME, 77, pp. 19–22) (1955) (0)
- Some Performance Characteristics of Deep-Well Turbine Pumps (1941) (0)
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