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Angus McEwan 1937–2018

Trevor J. McDougall https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4582-7741 A * , John A. Church B and John Zillman C
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A School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.

B Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.

C Bureau of Meteorology, Docklands, Vic 3008, Australia.

* Correspondence to: Trevor.McDougall@unsw.edu.au

Historical Records of Australian Science https://doi.org/10.1071/HR24005
Published online: 16 September 2024

© 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the Australian Academy of Science. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Abstract

Dr Angus McEwan FAA FTSE who died on 5 September 2018, aged 81, was a renowned Australian fluid dynamicist, specialising in designing and conducting experimental studies in geophysical fluid dynamics, and providing outstanding leadership of national and international research programs in oceanography and meteorology.

Keywords: climate, fluid dynamics, meteor, mixing, oceanography, turbulence.

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McEwan, A. D. (1971) Degeneration of resonantly-excited standing internal gravity waves, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 50(3), 431-448.
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McEwan, A. D. (1983) Internal mixing in stratified fluids, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 128, 59-80.
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McEwan, A. D., and Robinson, R. M. (1975) Parametric instability of internal gravity waves, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 67(4), 667-687.
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Plumb, R. A., and McEwan, A. D. (1978) The instability of a forced standing wave in a viscous stratified fluid: a laboratory analogue of. the quasi-biennial oscillation, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 35(10), 1827-1839.
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