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| Born | John Trevor Stuart (1929-01-29)29 January 1929[1][2] Leicester |
| Died | 17 December 2023(2023-12-17) (aged 94) London |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London |
| Known for | Stuart number Stuart–Landau equation Complex Ginzburg–Landau equation |
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| Fields | Fluid mechanics |
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| Thesis | Stability of viscous motion for finite disturbances (1952) |
| Website | royalsociety |
(John) Trevor StuartFRS (29 January 1929 to 17 December 2023)[1] was a mathematician and senior research investigator atImperial College London[3] working in theoreticalfluid mechanics,hydrodynamic stability offluid flows and nonlinearpartial differential equations.
Stuart was educatedGateway Grammar School, Leicester[1] andImperial 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 ofStability of Viscous Motion for Finite Disturbances.
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 theRoyal College of Science from 1990 to 1993. He was an emeritus professor at Imperial until his death in 2023.[4]
Stuart is known for his work onnonlinearwaves in the onset ofturbulence influids. He also extended the work ofLord Rayleigh with research into steady streaming in unsteadyviscous flows at highReynolds numbers.[5]
Stuart was elected aFellow of the Royal Society in 1974 and awarded theOtto Laporte Award in 1985 and theSenior Whitehead Prize in 1984. He also holds honoraryDoctor of Science degrees fromBrown University and theUniversity of East Anglia. He was the editor of theBiographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society from 2012 to 2016.[6][7]
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