Peter Bradshaw, FRS is an aeronautical engineer specialising in fluid mechanics.

He was educated at Cambridge University, where he was awarded a B.A. in Aeronautical Engineering in 1957.

He worked at the Aerodynamics Division of the National Physical Laboratory until 1969, after which he joined the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College, London University, where he was Professor of Experimental Aerodynamics until 1988. He was then appointed to the Thomas V. Jones Chair of Engineering at Stanford University, retiring as Emeritus Professor in 1995.

He is the author or co-author of a number of textbooks on fluid dynamics.

• Experimental Fluid Mechanics, (Pergamon, Oxford 1964, 1970)
• An Introduction to Turbulence and Its Measurement, (Pergamon, Oxford 1971, 1975)
• Momentum Transfer in Boundary Layers, (with T. Cebeci; Hemisphere, New York 1977)
• Engineering Calculation Methods for Turbulent Flows, (with T. Cebeci and J.H. Whitelaw; Academic Press, London 1981, 1985)
• Physical and Computational Aspects of Convective Heat Transfer, (with T. Cebeci;Springer, New York 1984, 1988)

• 1971 Bronze Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society
• 1981 Fellow of the Royal Society ^[1]
• 1990 Hon. D.Sc., Exeter University
• 1991 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Fluid Dynamics Award

• "Peter Bradshaw - Curriculum Vitae". Retrieved 18 September 2014.

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