David John Tritton (26 July 1935 – 24 April 1998) was an English physicist who specialised in

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. Tritton was born in

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on 26 July 1935. He was educated at the

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and obtained his

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with a dissertation on "Experiments on Flow past Cylinders and Free Convection", supervised by Alan A. Townsend. Subsequently, he worked at the

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in the UK. He was a visiting professor at the

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when he died on 24 April 1998. Tritton is well known for his textbook ''Physical Fluid Dynamics'', first published in 1977, with a second edition in 1988.''Physical Fluid Dynamics'', 2nd Edition, D. J. Tritton, Clarendon Press, 1988

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