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Australian mathematician and physicist
George Keith Batchelor
FRS
[1]
(8 March 1920 ? 30 March 2000) was an Australian
applied mathematician
and
fluid dynamicist
.
He was for many years a Professor of Applied Mathematics in the
University of Cambridge
, and was founding head of the
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
(DAMTP). In 1956 he founded the influential
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
[2]
which he edited for some forty years. Prior to Cambridge he studied at
Melbourne High School
and
University of Melbourne
.
[3]
As an applied mathematician (and for some years at Cambridge a co-worker with
Sir Geoffrey Taylor
in the field of
turbulent flow
), he was a keen advocate of the need for physical understanding and sound experimental basis.
His
An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics
(CUP, 1967) is still considered a classic of the subject, and has been re-issued in the
Cambridge Mathematical Library
series, following strong current demand.
[4]
Unusual for an 'elementary' textbook of that era, it presented a treatment in which the properties of a real
viscous fluid
were fully emphasised.
[5]
He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
in 1959.
[6]
The
Batchelor Prize
award, is named in his honour and is awarded every four years at the meeting of the International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
[7]
References
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edit
]
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Moffatt, H. K.
(2002).
"George Keith Batchelor. 8 March 1920 ? 30 March 2000"
.
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
.
48
: 25?41.
doi
:
10.1098/rsbm.2002.0002
.
JSTOR
3650247
.
- ^
Huppert, H. E.
(2000).
"George Keith Batchelor 8 March 1920?30 March 2000 Founding Editor, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1956"
.
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
.
421
(1): 1?14.
Bibcode
:
2000JFM...421....1H
.
doi
:
10.1017/S0022112000001968
.
- ^
Gregory, Alan (2005).
Strong Like Its Pillars
.
Melbourne
: Thompson Library Trust.
ISBN
978-0-646-43922-8
.
- ^
G. K. Batchelor (2000) [1967].
An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics
. Cambridge Mathematical Library series, Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-0-521-66396-0
.
- ^
Review of An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics by G. K. Batchelor, G. I. Taylor, Eureka, February 1968
- ^
"Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B"
(PDF)
. American Academy of Arts and Sciences
. Retrieved
20 May
2011
.
- ^
"The Batchelor Prize in Fluid Mechanics ? IUTAM"
.
iutam.org
. Retrieved
27 March
2016
.
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