Harvey Rosten

Harvey Ivor Rosten (3 October 1948 – 23 June 1997) was an English physicist of London University (Queen Mary College) and Cambridge University (Dept. of Applied and Theoretical Physics).

Harvey Rosten
Born
Harvey Ivor Rosten

3 October 1948[1]
Hackney, London[2]
Died23 June 1997 (aged 48)
Surrey, England
NationalityEnglish
OccupationCFD Engineer

Career

He spent 14 years working for CHAM Ltd as a Project Engineer, in this time he was the manager responsible for the development of the world’s first commercial general–purpose Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software, PHOENICS.[3][4]

In 1988, Rosten co-founded Flomerics with colleague Dr. David Thatchell of Imperial College London where he assumed the role of Technical Director of FloTHERM. In this position he developed Flomerics involvement with DELPHI (DEvelopment of Libraries of PHysical models for an Integrated design environment).[5]

Legacy

The Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence was established in 1998 in celebration of Rosten's contributions to CFD and the electronics cooling industry.[6]

References
  1. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
  2. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007
  3. "The Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence". http://rostenaward.com/. Unknown. 2018. External link in |website= (help)
  4. "SEMITHERM "The 2017 Harvey rosten Award"". http://semi-therm.org/awards. SEMITHERM. 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2018. External link in |website= (help)
  5. "DELPHI – A status report on the European -union funded project for the creation and validation of thermal models on electronic parts". https://www.electronics-cooling.com/1996/01/delphi-a-status-report-on-the-european-union-funded-project-for-the-creation-and-validation-of-thermal-models-on-electronic-parts/#. electronics cooling. 1 January 1996. Retrieved 23 April 2018. External link in |website= (help)
  6. "The Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence". http://rostenaward.com/. Unknown. 2018. External link in |website= (help)
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