Harvey Rosten Explained

Harvey Rosten
Birth Name:	Harvey Ivor Rosten
Birth Date:	3 October 1948^[1]
Birth Place:	Hackney, London^[2]
Death Date:	23 June 1997 (aged 48)
Death Place:	Surrey, England
Nationality:	English
Occupation:	CFD Engineer

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).

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]

Notes and References

1. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
2. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007
3. Web site: The Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence . . 2018 . rostenaward.com/ . Unknown.
4. Web site: SEMITHERM "The 2017 Harvey rosten Award". . 2018 . semi-therm.org/awards. SEMITHERM. 10 April 2018.
5. Web site: DELPHI – A status report on the European -union funded project for the creation and validation of thermal models on electronic parts . . 1 January 1996 . 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 . 23 April 2018.
6. Web site: The Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence . . 2018 . rostenaward.com/ . Unknown.