Leslie Morgan Smith (born August 15, 1961)[1] is an American applied mathematician, mechanical engineer, and engineering physicist whose research focuses on fluid dynamics and turbulence.
Smith graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University in 1983.
[1] She completed her Ph.D. in applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988.
Her dissertation, An upper bound with correct scaling laws for turbulent shear flows, was supervised by Willem Malkus [pt].
[4] Smith was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008 "for important and insightful contributions to the understanding of turbulence in engineering and geophysical flows through theory and numerical simulations".