Background
Fay, James Alan was born on November 1, 1923 in Southold, New York, United States. Son of William Joseph, Junior and Margaret (Keenan) Fay.
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Now thoroughly updated in its second edition, Energy and the Environment: Scientific and Technological Principles addresses a central problem of urban-industrial society--the interconnectedness of energy usage and environmental degradation--by examining how the rapidly growing use of energy threatens the natural environment at local, regional, and global scales. Authors James A. Fay and Dan S. Golomb describe fossil, nuclear, and renewable energy technologies and explain their efficiencies for transforming source energy to useful mechanical or electrical power. In particular, they emphasize electric power and the use of transportation vehicles, whose technological improvements increase energy efficiency and reduce air pollutant emissions. Fay and Golomb also analyze the source of toxic emissions to air, water, and land that arise from energy uses and their effects on environmental quality. They pay special attention to global climate change, the contribution made to it by energy uses, and the salient technologies that are being developed to mitigate this effect. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate and first-year graduate students, as well as professionals in the fields of energy and environmental sciences and technology, Energy and the Environment: Scientific and Technological Principles, Second Edition, equips readers with the basic factual knowledge needed to develop solutions to these environmental problems.
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Introduction to Fluid Mechanics is a mathematically efficient introductory text for a basal course in mechanical engineering. More rigorous than existing texts in the field, it is also distinguished by the choice and order of subject matter, its careful derivation and explanation of the laws of fluid mechanics, and its attention to everyday examples of fluid flow and common engineering applications.Beginning with the simple and proceeding to the complex, the text introduces the principles of fluid mechanics in orderly steps. At each stage practical engineering problems are solved, principally in engineering systems such as dams, pumps, turbines, pipe flows, propellers, and jets, but with occasional illustrations from physiological and meteorological flows. The approach builds on the student's experience with everyday fluid mechanics, showing how the scientific principles permit a quantitative understanding of what is happening and provide a basis for designing engineering systems that achieve the desired objectives.Introduction to Fluid Mechanics differs from most engineering texts in several respects: The derivations of the fluid principles (especially the conservation of energy) are complete and correct, but concisely given through use of the theorems of vector calculus. This saves considerable time and enables the student to visualize the significance of these principles. More attention than usual is given to unsteady flows and their importance in pipe flow and external flows. Finally, the examples and exercises illustrate real engineering situations, including physically realistic values of the problem variables. Many of these problems require calculation of numerical values, giving the student experience in judging the correctness of his or her numerical skills.
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Mechanical engineering educator
Fay, James Alan was born on November 1, 1923 in Southold, New York, United States. Son of William Joseph, Junior and Margaret (Keenan) Fay.
Bachelor of Science, Webb Institute Naval Architecture, 1944. Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, 1951.
Research engineer, Lima-Hamilton Corporation, 1947-1949; assistant professor engineering mechanics, Cornell Univercity, 1951-1955; member of faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1955-1989; professor mechanic engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960-1989; professor emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 1989. Consultant to government and industry. Member National Research Council Environmental Studies Board, 1973-1978, 80-83.
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Chairman Boston Air Pollution Commission, 1969-1972, Massachusetts Port Authority, 1972-1977. Board directors Union Concerned Scientists, since 1978, Conservation Law Foundation, 1984-1994. Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Physical Society (Executive Committee division fluid dynamics 1964-1967), American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (chairman plasmadynamics committee 1966-1968). Member National Academy of Engineering, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Air and Waste Management Association, Sigma Xi.
Married Agatha Marie Kelly, January 12, 1946. Children: David Anthony, Mark Bernard, Colin Michael, Jamie Martin, Peter Robert, Michele Marie.