Daniel Donald Joseph (March 26, 1929 – May 24, 2011) was an American mechanical engineer.
(1960), and Ph.D. (1963) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Joseph started his academic career as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1962.
In the following year he joined University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics.
[1] Joseph's interests included stability of fluid flow, irrotational motions of viscous and viscoelastic fluids, and direct numerical simulations of solid–liquid flows.