| 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]