Wilhelm Schneider (born May 3, 1938) is an Austrian scientist and a specialist in fluid mechanics.
[1] Wilhelm Schneider was born in Vienna, Austria in 1938.
[2] His research contributions are significant in many areas of fluid mechanics and related areas including supersonic and hypersonic flows, radiation gas dynamics, waves in fluids, jets, plumes & shear layers, convection flows, condensation, evaporation, fluidization, electric arcs and other topics.
He is the receipient of many awards including Ernst Mach prize (1966), Ludwig Prandtl Ring (2005) and others.
[5] On his 60th birthday, an edited book titled Recent Advances in Boundary Layer Theory was published by Springer and on his 70th birthday the book [6][7][8]