G. I. Taylor
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS FRSE (7 March 1886 – 27 June 1975) was a British physicist and mathematician, who made contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor | |
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| Born | 7 March 1886 St. John's Wood, Middlesex, England |
| Died | 27 June 1975 (aged 89) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Taylor–Couette flow Rayleigh–Taylor instability Taylor dispersion Taylor column Saffman–Taylor instability Taylor–von Neumann–Sedov blast wave Taylor microscale Taylor's dislocation Taylor cone Zeldovich–Taylor flow Taylor–Maccoll flow Taylor–Culick flow Taylor–Green vortex Taylor–Proudman theorem Taylor number Taylor scraping flow Taylor's decaying vortices Taylor's potential flow Taylor–Caulfield instability Taylor–Dean flow Taylor–Goldstein equation Taylor impact test Taylor–Melcher leaky dielectric model CQR anchor Eddy diffusion Entrainment Flow plasticity theory Homogeneous isotropic turbulence |
| Awards | FRS (1919) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics Mathematics Fluid mechanics Fluid dynamics Solid mechanics Wave theory |
| Academic advisors | J. J. Thomson |
| Doctoral students | George Batchelor Philip Drazin Albert E. Green Francis Bretherton Rosa M. Morris Stewart Turner |
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