Among many other things, Owen Lamb was a fluid mechanician and aeronautical engineer.  As his grandson, I have started this posting in honor of his scientific contributions, which happen to align closely with my interests in geological fluid mechanics.  Click on the links below for a sample of his work.

Publications

Holdhusen, J.S. and Lamb, O.P., 1948, Model Experiments for the Design of a Sixty-Inch Water Tunnel, Part V, Vaned Elbow Studies, by James S. Holdhusen and Owen P. Lamb. 80 pages, 44 illustrations. Prepared for David Taylor Model Basin, Department of the Navy, St Anthony Falls Laboratory Project Report No. 14

Lamb, O.P., 1949, Air Entrainment in Flowing Water: A Summary and Bibliography of Literature.  Prepared for Office of Naval Research, Department of the Navy, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory Project Report No. 19.

Lamb, O.P. and Killen, J.M., 1950, An Electrical Method for Measuring Air Concentration in Flowing Air-Water Mixtures.  University of Minnesota, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory Technical Paper No. 2, Series B.

Straub, L.G., Killen, J.M., Lamb, O.P., 1952, Velocity measurements of air-water mixtures. 

St Anthony Falls Laboratory Technical Paper No. 10-B, 33 pp.

Lamb, O.P., 1952, An Experimental Channel for the Study of Air Entrainment in High-Velocity Flow.  Prepared for Office of Naval Research, Department of the Navy.  St Anthony Falls Laboratory Project Report No. 34.

Straub, L.G. and Lamb, O.P., 1953, Experimental Studies of Air Entrainment in Open Channel Flow.  St Anthony Falls Laboratory Technical Paper No. 4-A reprinted from Proceedings, Minnesota International Hydraulics Convention, Minneapolis, pp. 425-437.

Straub, L.G., Killen, J.M., Lamb, O.P., 1954, Velocity measurements of air-water mixtures.  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 119, p. 207-220. 

Lamb, O.P. and Holdhusen, J.S., 1956, Investigation Of Aircraft Ducting Components At High Subsonic Speeds, WADC Technical Report 56-187, 150 pp. [Classified DOD].
 

Jones, A.L., Lamb, O.P., and Cronk, A.E., 1956, A method for predicting lift effectiveness of spoilers at subsonic speeds.  Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23(4), p. 330.

Straub, L. G., and O. P. Lamb., 1956, Studies of air entrainment on open-channel flows, Am. Soc. Civ. Eng. Trans., 121, 30-44.

Baker, V.D., Johnson, R.A., Brasket, R.G. and Lamb O.P., Experimental results with lift engine exhaust nozzles.