Liu Gaolian

Liu Gaolian (July 5, 1932 - March 8, 2008), a native of Fengxin, Jiangxi Province, China, was an engineering thermophysicist, fluid dynamicist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and professor of Shanghai University and Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. Liu Gaolian graduated from the turbine graduate class of Harbin Institute of Technology in 1957. He later focused on turbine aerodynamic theory and fluid mechanics, and served as a professor at the Institute of Mechanics of Shanghai University. He won the second prize of the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 1987 and was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999.