Faculty Profile

Dr. Louis N. Howard, McKenzie Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Affiliate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, received his Ph.D. (1953) and M.S. (1952) from Princeton University and his B.S. (1950) from Swarthmore College. Following a year as Higgins Lecturer at Princeton University, and a year as Research Associate at the California Institute of Technology, he joined the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955. He came to the Department of Mathematics at Florida State University in 1981, and became an Affiliate Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 1987. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Fellow); and the American Physical Society. He is also a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (1961), a Sloan Foundation Fellow (1962), and a Fairchild Scholar (1976). Professor Howard's research interests are in large scale flows in turbulent convection, Hele Shaw cell flows, salt-finger zones, and mathematical modeling of numerous fluid and geophysical fluid dynamics phenomena.

Published Articles

• N.J. Balmforth, L.H. Howard and A. Spiegel, "Instability of Rapid Rotation Polytropes," SIAM J Appl. Math., 55, 298-331, 1995.
  
• Howard and E. A. Spiegel, "Equilibria of Rapidly Rotating Polytropes" - N. J. Balmforth, L. N. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 260, 253-272, 1993.
  
• L. N. Howard and G. Veronis, "Stability of Salt Fingers with Negligible Diffusivity" - J. Fluid. Mech., 239, 511-522, 1992.
  
• L.N. Howard, "Limits on the Transport of Heat and Momentum by Turbulent Convection with Large-Scale Flow" -Studies in Applied Mathematics, 83, 273-285, 1990.
  
• L. N. Howard and T. P. Williams, "Axial Gradients of Rhodopsin in Light-Exposed Retinal Rods of the Toad" - C. L. Makino, Journal of General Physiology, 96, 1199-1220, 1990.