John Trevor Stuart
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| Born | John Trevor Stuart 29 January 1929[1][2] Leicester, England |
| Died | 17 December 2023 (aged 94) London, England |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London |
| Known for | Stuart number Stuart–Landau equation Complex Ginzburg–Landau equation |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Fluid mechanics |
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| Thesis | Stability of viscous motion for finite disturbances (1952) |
| Website | royalsociety |
(John) Trevor Stuart FRS (29 January 1929 – 17 December 2023)[1] was a mathematician and senior research investigator at Imperial College London[3] working in theoretical fluid mechanics, hydrodynamic stability of fluid flows and nonlinear partial differential equations.
Education
[edit | edit source]Stuart was educated Gateway Grammar School, Leicester[1] and Imperial College of Science and Technology, London where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1949.[1] He continued his study at Imperial College and in 1953 was awarded Ph.D. on the basis of Stability of Viscous Motion for Finite Disturbances.
Career
[edit | edit source]Stuart joined the Aeronautics Division of the National Research Laboratory, returning to join the staff of Imperial College after a few years. He was appointed professor of theoretical fluid mechanics in 1966 and was head of the Department of Mathematics from 1974 to 1979 and 1983 to 1986. He was Dean of the Royal College of Science from 1990 to 1993. He was an emeritus professor at Imperial until his death in 2023.[4]
Research
[edit | edit source]Stuart is known for his work on nonlinear waves in the onset of turbulence in fluids. He also extended the work of Lord Rayleigh with research into steady streaming in unsteady viscous flows at high Reynolds numbers.[5]
- 1978: (with R. C. Diprima) "The Eckhaus and Benjamin-Feir Resonance Mechanisms", Proceedings of the Royal Society A 362: 27, issue 1708, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1986: "Taylor-Vortex Flow: A Dynamical System", SIAM Review 28(3):315 342, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1995: (with M.R. Dhanak) "Distortion of the stagnation-point flow due to cross-stream vorticity in the external flow", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 352: 443, issue 1700, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1996: "Evolution of vorticity in perturbed flow in a pipe", Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 13(3): 206 to 210, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1997: "The quarterly journal of mechanics and applied mathematics 1947 to 1997", The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics 50(4):497,8 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 1998: "Singularities in three-dimensional Compressible Euler flows with vorticity", Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics 10: 385–91, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 2006: (with P.M.Eagles & R.C. Diprima) "The effects of eccentricity on torque and load in Taylor-vortex flow", Journal of Fluid Mechanics 87(2): 209 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Awards
[edit | edit source]Stuart was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974 and awarded the Otto Laporte Award in 1985 and the Senior Whitehead Prize in 1984. He also holds honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Brown University and the University of East Anglia. He was the editor of the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society from 2012 to 2016.[6][7]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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