George Batchelor
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George Keith Batchelor (March 8, 1920 - March 30, 2000) was an Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist. He was for many years the 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 which he edited for some forty years.
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 following strong current demand [1]. Unusual for an 'elementary' textbook of that era, it presented a treatment in which the properties of a real viscous fluid were fully emphasised.
[edit] References
- ^ G. K. Batchelor (2000). An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics. Cambridge Mathematical Library series, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-66396-2.
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “George Batchelor”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics by G. K. Batchelor at Cambridge Mathematical Library.
- Obituaries for George Batchelor (with portraits) at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) of the University of Cambridge website
- Obituary by Julian Hunt
