Robert William Bilger 1935–2015
Bob Bilger FAA FTSE was an engineer whose insightful experiments, theory and modelling advanced combustion chemistry and fluid mechanics.
Robert William Bilger was born in Rustenburg, in the North-west Province of South Africa on 22 April 1935 and died in Sydney, New South Wales, on 2 October 2015. He had a distinguished academic career at the University of Sydney. His most important contribution to combustion research was the pioneering of conditional moment closure methods as a reliable predictive tool for turbulent reacting flows. He also made significant contributions to environmental flows and combustion chemistry.
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This memoir was originally published in Historical Records of Australian Science, vol.27(2), 2016. It was written by Roger I. Tanner and Assaad R. Masri.
