My PhD Thesis Acknowledgement Section

The comments, pieces of advice, patience and understanding of my advisor, Professor Marilyn J. Smith, are very acknowledged and highly appreciated. I would also like to express my gratitude to her for soliciting supplemental teaching assistantship funding for me from the school of aerospace engineering. I extend this gratitude to the school in general.

It was always good to see Professor Jechiel Jagoda right from my first meeting with him ever. Over time, he became to me a dependable mentor and a friend especially in the numerous times of distress in the course of my studies. He also helped to solicit for my teaching assistant positions. I am very thankful for this. The rest of my thesis committee also offered comments and guidance which were invaluable and very appreciated.

Dr. Nicholson Konrad Koukpaizan, a then fellow Ph.D. candidate, always encouraged the avenue in which I was able to discuss and assess the viability of some rudimentary ideas which eventually culminated in this work. This is very appreciated.

I express my profound gratitude to the present and past administrations of Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Nigeria [ KWARA STATE UNIVERSITY, MALETE ] for the financial support of my post graduate studies. I remember the time of my one-on-one job interview meeting with the then Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah, when he laid down the vision of where our dear university hopes to be with the three-pronged ideal of teaching, research and community development. I also remember when, at one of his regular visits to the college of engineering, he displayed a public vote of confidence in my suitability as an ambassador for our great university. For these times among many others and the continued long-standing and time-tested commitment of the university to this ideal as it particularly relates to my graduate studies, I am not only grateful to the university and ultimately to God, but I am also humbled by the opportunity I was given to serve. My funding guarantors, Professor Sulaiman Jamiu and Professor Shaykh-Luqman Jimoh [current KWASU Vice-Chancellor] did me a great service for which I am very grateful. I cannot thank Dr. Sherifat Hussein-Abubakar enough for the motherly role she always played for me and for being my spokesperson at KWASU. Many thanks are also in order to Professor Leo Daniel and Professor Chris Odetunde for all the roles they played in the successful completion of my studies.

I shall not forget to acknowledge all my students at KWASU and in particular, HabeebuLlah Olaitan AbdulKadir, whose enthusiastic question in class on February 19, 2014 aroused my curiosity for this study.

I would be lacking hindsight if I did not acknowledge the contributions of my teachers and lecturers, both formal and informal, who have contributed immensely to my general knowledge and in particular, to my knowledge of aerodynamics. Of notable mention are Dr. K. Bofah of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana [ Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi ] and John D. Anderson, Jr. of the Smithsonian Institution , Washington DC, United States of America. The former introduced me thoroughly, in the pursuit of my Bachelor's degree, to the Fundamentals of Aerodynamics using one of the numerous well-known texts written by the latter.

I would be too ungrateful not to acknowledge my friends who may have been on the lookout for this paragraph. I have your names ingrained in my heart, and I thank you for the friendship we share which I hold dearly.

I am much more indebted to my siblings, uncles, aunts, cousins and entire family (biological and adopted), too numerous to mention here, for their unconditional and unending love and prayers. It would amount to another thesis write-up to effectively express my thanks to everyone. However, naturally, Dr. Mrs. Azizah Omotoyosi Amoloye-Adebayo [now a Professor], [Dr.] Mrs. Taofiqah Omotayo Abu, Dr. Hikmah Omodesola Ibrahim (Mrs.) and Engr. [Dr.] Mubarak Omobolaji Amoloye deserve unconditional mention as much as my love and appreciation. Also, it behooves me to mention my fraternal love and admiration for all the members of the Alfarooq Masjid community who made Atlanta a home-away-from-home for me especially in the months of Ramadan. Of very notable mention are Mr. Mustapha Khalifah and Mr. Khaldoun Malas through whose selfless generosities I found divine mercy.

Words cannot begin to express my gratitude, appreciation, love and adoration for my mother, Dr. Mrs. Bilqis Ajoke Amoloye, and my late father, Dr. Abdul-Jelil Adebayo Amoloye. I had a dream when I was very young, and I am living it now thanks to your belief and support. In a similar vein, I remain forever indebted to my adopted parents in their numbers (the committee of friends and others) who, indeed, have chosen to remain friends of the family as much in my father's demise as in his lifetime many years ago. I also need to mention and thank my uncle, Mr. Yunus Amoloye from whose discussion of the globe and outer space, my young mind of around 6 years began to wonder about aerospace engineering.

I have found that I am able to look into engineering problems critically and suggest solutions even when they are not immediately relevant to my field. I recognize this as a favour and blessing of God, Who, I believe, was not only my general Supervisor for this work but also, the Only Supervisor I have known for all my affairs. I appreciate and submit to Him for the inspiration for and the completion of this study. I declare that to Him belongs the ultimate acknowledgment and glory.

AlhamduliLlah Rabbil A'lameen (Praise be to God, the Lord of the worlds)!

Amoloye, T O (2020), A refined potential theory for the incompressible unsteady subcritical-reynolds number flows on canonical bluff bodies, Ph.D thesis Georgia Institute of Technology , https://hdl.handle.net/1853/64150