David Tritton

David John Tritton
Born26 July 1935
Slough, England
Died24 April 1998 (1998-04-25) (aged 62)
Austin, Texas
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsFluid dynamics
InstitutionsUniversity of Newcastle upon Tyne
Doctoral advisorAlan A. Townsend

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]

  1. ^ "David Tritton – Physicist | Tritton Family History". 2011-03-06. Archived from the original on 2011-03-13. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
  2. ^ "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - D. Tritton". genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 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