David Tritton

David John Tritton (26 July 1935 – 24 April 1998) was an English physicist who specialised in fluid dynamics.

David John Tritton
Born	26 July 1935 Slough, England
Died	24 April 1998 (1998-04-25) (aged 62) Austin, Texas
Citizenship	British
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Scientific career
Fields	Fluid dynamics
Institutions	University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Doctoral advisor	Alan A. Townsend

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]

References

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