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G. I. Taylor Professor Of Fluid Mechanics
The G. I. Taylor Professorship of Fluid Mechanics is a professorship in fluid mechanics at the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1992 and named in honor of G. I. Taylor, after a fundraising campaign by George Batchelor. Philip Saffman, a student of Batchelor and Taylor, was offered the chair in the 1990s. However, he turned it down. He stated later that he was "very tempted" by the offer, but that he was stopped by the difficulty of moving his family from California to England. List of G. I. Taylor Professors of Fluid Mechanics * 1992 – 1994 Grigory Barenblatt * 1996 – 2009 Tim Pedley FRS * 2010 – 2017, Paul Linden FRS * 2017 – present, Rich Kerswell Richard Kerswell FRS is a British fluid mechanics scientist and the G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... FRS References {{DEFAULTSORT:Professor of Fluid Mechanics, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fluid Mechanics
Fluid mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids ( liquids, gases, and plasmas) and the forces on them. It has applications in a wide range of disciplines, including mechanical, aerospace, civil, chemical and biomedical engineering, geophysics, oceanography, meteorology, astrophysics, and biology. It can be divided into fluid statics, the study of fluids at rest; and fluid dynamics, the study of the effect of forces on fluid motion. It is a branch of continuum mechanics, a subject which models matter without using the information that it is made out of atoms; that is, it models matter from a ''macroscopic'' viewpoint rather than from ''microscopic''. Fluid mechanics, especially fluid dynamics, is an active field of research, typically mathematically complex. Many problems are partly or wholly unsolved and are best addressed by numerical methods, typically using computers. A modern discipline, called computational fluid dynamics (CFD), is dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge , type = Public research university , endowment = £7.121 billion (including colleges) , budget = £2.308 billion (excluding colleges) , chancellor = The Lord Sainsbury of Turville , vice_chancellor = Anthony Freeling , students = 24,450 (2020) , undergrad = 12,850 (2020) , postgrad = 11,600 (2020) , city = Cambridge , country = England , campus_type = , sporting_affiliations = The Sporting Blue , colours = Cambridge Blue , website = , logo = University of Cambridge logo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Batchelor
George Keith Batchelor FRS (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'' which he edited for some forty years. Prior to Cambridge he studied at Melbourne High School and University of Melbourne. 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. Unusual for an 'elementary' textbook of that era, it presented a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Saffman
Philip Geoffrey Saffman FRS (19 March 1931 – 17 August 2008) was a mathematician and the Theodore von Kármán Professor of Applied Mathematics and Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology.. Education and early life Saffman was born to a Jewish family in Leeds, England, and educated at Roundhay Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge which he entered aged 15. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1953, studied for Part III of the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos in 1954 and was awarded his PhD in 1956 for research supervised by George Batchelor. Career and research Saffman started his academic career as a lecturer at the University of Cambridge, then joined King's College London as a Reader. Saffman joined the Caltech faculty in 1964 and was named the Theodore von Kármán Professor in 1995. According to Dan Meiron, Saffman "really was one of the leading figures in fluid mechanics," and he influenced almost every subfield of that discipline. He is known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigory Barenblatt
Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (russian: Григо́рий Исаа́кович Баренблат; 10 July 1927 – 22 June 2018) was a Russian mathematician. Education Barenblatt graduated in 1950 from Moscow State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 from Moscow State University under the supervision of A. N. Kolmogorov. Career and research Barenblatt also received a D.Sc. from Moscow State University in 1957. He was an emeritus Professor in Residence at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley and Mathematician at Department of Mathematics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge from 1992 to 1994 and he was Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics. His areas of research were: # Fracture mechanics # The theory of fluid and gas flows in porous media # The mechanics of a non-classical deformable solids # Turbul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Pedley
Timothy John Pedley (born 23 March 1942) is a British mathematician and a former G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge. His principal research interest is the application of fluid mechanics to biology and medicine. He spent three years at Johns Hopkins University as a post-doctoral fellow. From 1968 to 1973 he was a lecturer at Imperial College London, after which he moved to the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge. He remained at Cambridge until 1990 when he moved to Leeds University to be Professor of Applied Mathematics. In 1996 he returned to Cambridge and from 2000 to 2005 he was head of DAMTP. He is a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and a fellow of the Royal Society (elected 1995). Pedley was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1999) for research on biofluid dynamics, collapsible tube flow, and the theory of swimming of fish and microorgani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Linden
Paul Frederick Linden (born 29 January 1947) is a mathematician specialising in fluid dynamics. He was the third G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge, inaugural Blasker Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science and Engineering at the UC San Diego and a fellow of Downing College. Education Linden earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1972, under the supervision of Stewart Turner John Stewart Turner FAA FRS (11 January 1930 – 3 July 2022) was an Australian geophysicist. Early life Stewart Turner was educated at North Sydney Boys High School and Sydney University. He then joined the Cloud Physics Group, CSIRO Divisi .... His thesis was entitled ''The Effect of Turbulence and Shear on Salt Fingers''. Awards and honours He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2003. Linden was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2007. One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate tex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rich Kerswell
Richard Kerswell FRS is a British fluid mechanics scientist and the G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 and was a mathematics professor in the University of Newcastle from 1992 to 1996 and in Bristol University from 1996 until he moved to the University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ... in 2017. at the University of Cambridge References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kerswell, Rich[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professorships At The University Of Cambridge
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School Of Technology, University Of Cambridge
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Professorships In Engineering
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