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On April 26th, 2026 Phil Roe passed away, a few days short of his 88th birthday.
Phil was a giant in Aerodynamics and computational fluid dynamics and his research has touched and inspired a very broad range of disciplines. He had remarkable insight, and always stressed the importance of asking good questions.
His unofficial google scholar page captures main publications. This website is a temporary home for some less-well known artefacts related to him.
Aerodynamic Problems of Hypersonic Vehicles (1972)
AGARD Lecture series: A treasure trove of notes (PDF), full of insight: Aerodynamics at Moderate Hypersonic Mach Numbers, Optimum shapes, Theory of Waveriders, Thin shock layer theory, Momentum theory, Flows with heat addition.
The Wine snob's guide to flux functions (circa 1990s)
The Wine snob's guide (PDF)
Phil reading guide on his 80th birthday (video)
A one sided view (1983)
Limericks written at The AMS/SIAM summer Seminar on Large-Scale CFD in San Diego (PDF)
A Theorem on vorticity (1990s)
Handwritten note (scanned by Hiroaki Nishikawa) on a theorem leading to early idea for vorticity conserving finite volume methods (PDF)
Preface from Phil's book Principles of CFD (2006)
First few pages from his 390 page book that is unfinished (PDF)
Chairs ! (2010s)
Phil shared this with Prof. Chris Fidkowski when he told him he was starting to build chairs. (PDF)
My Way - A Computational Autobiography (2020)
Phil recounts a 40+ year 'struggle' to find a sound basis for understanding CFD of compressible flow (PDF)
Musings of a Computational Philosopher (December 2023)
His last talk at U-M: an MICDE seminar (video)
His last published paper with the same title (PDF)
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