G. I. Taylor Professorship of Fluid Mechanics
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The G. I. Taylor Professorship of Fluid Mechanics is a professorship in fluid mechanics
at the University of Cambridge
. It was founded in 1992 and named in honor of G. I. Taylor.
Fluid mechanics
Fluid mechanics is the study of fluids and the forces on them. Fluid mechanics can be divided into fluid statics, the study of fluids at rest; fluid kinematics, the study of fluids in motion; and fluid dynamics, the study of the effect of forces on fluid motion...
at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
. It was founded in 1992 and named in honor of G. I. Taylor.
List of G. I. Taylor Professors of Fluid Mechanics
- 1992–1994 Grigory BarenblattGrigory BarenblattGrigory Isaakovich Barenblatt is a Russian mathematician. He graduated in 1950 from Moscow State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 from Moscow State University under the supervision of A. N. Kolmogorov. He also received a D.Sc. from Moscow State...
- 1996-2009 Tim PedleyTim PedleyTimothy John "Tim" Pedley is a British mathematician and a former G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge. His principal research interest is the application of fluid mechanics to biology and medicine....
- 2010- Paul Linden