Education
He received his Bachelor of Surgery (1959), Master of Surgery (1960), and Doctor of Philosophy (1963) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
He received his Bachelor of Surgery (1959), Master of Surgery (1960), and Doctor of Philosophy (1963) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
He was the Regents Professor Emeritus and Russell J. Penrose Professor Emeritus of Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota. He was widely known for his research in fluid dynamics. Joseph received his Masters in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 1950.
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. He was named full Professor in 1968.
Joseph"s interests included stability of fluid flow, irrotational motions of viscous and viscoelastic fluids, and direct numerical simulations of solid–liquid flows. He has been listed as an Inter-Services Intelligence Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the Inter-Services Intelligence Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company.
Books authored Joseph, D. D., Stability of Fluid Motions, I and II, Springer-Verlag, New York (1976). Joseph, D. D. and Y. Renardy, Fundamentals of Two-Fluid Dynamics. Part 1: Mathematical Theory and Applications, Springer-Verlag, New York (1993).
Joseph, D. D. and Y. Renardy, Fundamentals of Two-Fluid Dynamics: Part 2: Lubricated Transport, Drops and Miscible Liquids, Springer-Verlag, New York (1993).
Joseph, D. D., Elementary Stability and Bifurcation Theory, 2nd ed., Springer (1997). Joseph, D. D., Fluid Dynamics of Viscoelastic Liquids, Springer (2007). Joseph, D. D., Funada, T., and Wang, J., Potential Flows of Viscous and Viscoelastic Liquids, Cambridge University Press (2007).
National Academy of Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. American Physical Society]
Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 1990
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1991.