David Tritton Explained

David John Tritton
Birth Date:26 July 1935
Birth Place:Slough, England
Death Place:Austin, Texas
Citizenship:British
Fields:Fluid dynamics
Alma Mater:University of Cambridge
Doctoral Advisor:Alan A. Townsend
Work Institution:University of Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Tritton was born in Slough on 26 July 1935.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]

Tritton is well known for his textbook Physical Fluid Dynamics, first published in 1977, with a second edition in 1988.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: David Tritton  - Physicist | Tritton Family History. https://web.archive.org/web/20110313060457/http://www.tritton.org.uk/descendants-of-henry-of-wickhambreaux/david-tritton-physicist. 2011-03-13. dead. 2014-08-26. 2011-03-06.
  2. Web site: The Mathematics Genealogy Project - D. Tritton. genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. 2014-08-26.
  3. Obituary: "David John Tritton", Harry L. Swinney and Peter A. Davies, Physics Today April 1999. http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/52/4/10.1063/1.882637
  4. Physical Fluid Dynamics, 2nd Edition, D. J. Tritton, Clarendon Press, 1988