DEVOTION TO CHINESE SCIENCE-IN MEMORY OFPROFESSOR LIN TONGJI

As a famous scientist specialized in fluid mechanics, Professor Lin Tonggji had madeoutstanding contributions to rarefied gas dynamics, hypersonic and transonic aerodynamics, incom-pressible fluid dynamics, ablative thermal protection for re-entry flight vehicles and incompressibleoscillatory now which have found important applications in aeronautical and astronautical engi-neering and offshore engineering.Professor Lin was the vice-editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of Acta Mechanica Sinica from1979 to 19...