David John Tritton (26 July 1935 – 24 April 1998) was an English physicist who specialised in
fluid dynamics
In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids— liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including ''aerodynamics'' (the study of air and other gases in motion) an ...
.
Tritton was born in
Slough
Slough () is a town and unparished area in the unitary authority of the same name in Berkshire, England, bordering west London. It lies in the Thames Valley, west of central London and north-east of Reading, at the intersection of the M4 ...
on 26 July 1935.
He was educated at the
University of Cambridge and obtained his PhD with a dissertation on "Experiments on Flow past Cylinders and Free Convection", supervised by Alan A. Townsend.
Subsequently, he worked at the
University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the
UK. He was a visiting professor at the
University of Texas at Austin 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]
References
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1935 births
1998 deaths
Fluid dynamicists
Academics of Newcastle University