David Benney | |
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| Born | 8 April 1930 Wellington, New Zealand |
| Died | 9 October 2015 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Alma mater | Victoria University College University of Cambridge (BA) MIT (PhD) |
| Known for | Benney moment equations |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1964) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Canterbury University College MIT |
| Thesis | On the secondary motion induced by oscillations in a shear flow (1959) |
| Doctoral advisor | Chia-Chiao Lin |
| Doctoral students | Alan C. Newell Mark J. Ablowitz[1] |
David John Benney (8 April 1930 – 9 October 2015) was a New Zealand applied mathematician, known for work on the nonlinear partial differential equations of fluid dynamics.[2][3][4]