Stephen Pope, Cornell professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society, the national academy of the United Kingdom.

Pope, who joined the Cornell engineering faculty in 1982, is an expert in the fluid mechanics field of turbulence, as well as computational methods for combustion chemistry.

The author of more than 170 research papers and the graduate textbook "Turbulent Flows" (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Pope is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics.

At both Cornell and before that at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Pope has taught fluid mechanics, heat transfer, thermodynamics and combustion as well as advanced courses in turbulence and turbulent reactive flows. He also has been a consultant to Boeing, Exxon, General Motors, MIT, Rolls-Royce and Fluent and is a director of TQ Group Ltd., an educational products company.