Norman Riley is an

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at the

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Biography

Following High School education at Calder High School, Mytholmroyd he read Mathematics at Manchester University graduating with first class honours in 1956, followed by a PhD in 1959. Norman Riley served for one year as an Assistant Lecturer at

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and then spent four years as a lecturer at Durham University before he joined the then new

in 1964, the year that saw the first significant intake of students to the university. Promotion to Reader in 1966 was followed by promotion to a Personal Chair in 1971. He retired in 1999. Married in 1959 he has one son and one daughter.

Research contributions

His research contributions in the field of

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 ...

, over five decades, have included: unsteady flows with application to

acoustic levitation Acoustic levitation is a method for suspending matter in air against gravity using acoustic radiation pressure from high intensity sound waves. It works on the same principles as acoustic tweezers by harnessing acoustic radiation forces. However ...

and the loading on the submerged horizontal pontoons of tethered leg platforms; the

aerodynamics Aerodynamics, from grc, ἀήρ ''aero'' (air) + grc, δυναμική (dynamics), is the study of the motion of air, particularly when affected by a solid object, such as an airplane wing. It involves topics covered in the field of fluid dy ...

of wings including leading-edge separation from slender wings and

supercritical flow A supercritical flow is a flow whose velocity is larger than the wave velocity. The analogous condition in gas dynamics is supersonic speed. According to the website Civil Engineering Terms, supercritical flow is defined as follows: The flow a ...

over multi-element wings;

heat transfer Heat transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of thermal energy (heat) between physical systems. Heat transfer is classified into various mechanisms, such as thermal conduction, ...

and combustion including diffusion flames and detonation-wave generation;

vortex ring A vortex ring, also called a toroidal vortex, is a torus-shaped vortex in a fluid; that is, a region where the fluid mostly spins around an imaginary axis line that forms a closed loop. The dominant flow in a vortex ring is said to be toroidal, ...

dynamics;

crystal growth A crystal is a solid material whose constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are arranged in an orderly repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions. Crystal growth is a major stage of a crystallization process, and consists of the ...

, in particular the Czochralski crystal growth process. Throughout these investigations complementary numerical and asymptotic methods have featured.

Books

* Drazin, Philip G., and Norman Riley. The Navier–Stokes equations: a classification of flows and exact solutions. No. 334. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

References

*
"Broadview" Aug 1999, page6 The Navier-Stokes Equations
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Fluid dynamicists Academics of the University of Manchester Academics of Durham University Academics of the University of East Anglia English mathematicians {{UK-mathematician-stub

Biography

Research contributions

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