5 lives in this collection worked in turbulence, from 1842 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: fluid mechanics, solid mechanics. All fields
Manchester's first professor of engineering, who discovered the criterion for turbulence in pipes and founded lubrication theory and the averaged equations of turbulent flow.
fluid mechanics, engineering, heat transfer
Founder of boundary-layer theory and of modern aerodynamics, who built the Göttingen school of fluid mechanics and served the Nazi air ministry.
fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, boundary-layer theory
Hungarian-American aerodynamicist of the vortex street, the momentum integral and turbulence theory, who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and shaped US and NATO aeronautical research.
aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, turbulence
Cambridge physicist who founded the statistical theory of turbulence and the dislocation theory of plasticity, and whose name attaches to Taylor vortices, Taylor dispersion, the Rayleigh–Taylor instability and the Taylor cone.
fluid mechanics, turbulence, hydrodynamic stability
Founder of axiomatic probability theory whose work also shaped turbulence, Hamiltonian dynamics, ergodic theory and algorithmic complexity.
probability theory, real analysis, turbulence