John Fitzpatrick was Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, from 1994 to his passing away in Sept. 2012. The utter sadness of his death at the age of 63 was deeply felt by his family, friends, colleagues, and the International Community of Flow-Induced Vibration and Noise. The ASME FSI Technical Committee held a session in his memory during the PVP 2013 Conference which was held in Paris. This special topic section on Flow-Induced Vibration and Noise is dedicated to his memory and consists of selected papers of those presented in the PVP 2013 Conference. All papers have been expanded by the authors and rereviewed according to the ASME journal standards.
Professor John Fitzpatrick was born on Sept. 3, 1949, in Ballycastle, Co Antrim, where he spent his formative years and there developed an abiding love of the sea and sailing. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in...
