David Tritton
Appearance
David John Tritton | |
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Born | 26 July 1935 |
Died | 24 April 1998 | (aged 62)
Citizenship | British |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Fluid dynamics |
Institutions | University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
Doctoral advisor | Alan A. Townsend |
David John Tritton (26 July 1935 – 24 April 1998) was an English physicist who specialised in fluid dynamics.
Tritton was born in Slough on 26 July 1935.[1] He was educated at the University of Cambridge and obtained his PhD with a dissertation on "Experiments on Flow past Cylinders and Free Convection", supervised by Alan A. Townsend.[2] Subsequently, he worked at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. He was a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin when he died on 24 April 1998.[3]
Tritton is well known for his textbook Physical Fluid Dynamics, first published in 1977, with a second edition in 1988.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "David Tritton – Physicist | Tritton Family History". 2011-03-06. Archived from the original on 2011-03-13. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
- ^ "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - D. Tritton". genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
- ^ Obituary: "David John Tritton", Harry L. Swinney and Peter A. Davies, Physics Today April 1999. http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/52/4/10.1063/1.882637
- ^ Physical Fluid Dynamics, 2nd Edition, D. J. Tritton, Clarendon Press, 1988