William Saric
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Arizona State University
Tempe AZ 85287-6106

Professor Saric received his PhD in Mechanics at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1968. He worked at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque in the Atomic and Fluid Physics Division before joining the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He has been at Arizona State University since 1984. He is a Fellow of APS and ASME and the past Chairman of the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME. Amongst other honors, he is the recent receipient of the G.I. Taylor Medal from SES and the AGARD/NATO Scientific Achievement Award.

Professor Saric's research interest include theoretical and experimental studies in the areas of hydrodynamic stability, boundary-layer transition, nonlinear waves, laminar flow control, stability of stratified flows, and low-Reynolds-number aerodynamics.