George Batchelor

George Keith Batchelor ( born March 8, 1920 in Melbourne, † March 30, 2000 in Cambridge ) was an Australian mathematician and physicist who made ​​significant publications in the field of fluid mechanics.

Life and work

Batchelor visited the Essendon and the Melbourne High School. Then he went to the University of Melbourne, to study mathematics and physics. During the Second World War he worked at the Australian Aeronautical Research Laboratory at flow problems of aircraft engines. The work he undertook there, developed his interest in fluid mechanics, which occupied him from now on his life. At the Aeronautical Research Laboratory, he became convinced that the turbulence is the most important problem that could be solved in the fluid dynamics. The UK's leading expert in this field was Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, that Batchelor wrote to Taylor, who worked at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge and offered him to work for him.

Honors

1957 Batchelor was elected as a member ( "Fellow" ) to the Royal Society, in 1988, the Royal Medal awarded him. Batchelor is the winner of the Timoshenko Medal of the year 1988. 1997 he received the GI Taylor Medal.

Works

Batchelor wrote a standard work of fluid mechanics:

• GK Batchelor (2000): An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics. Cambridge Mathematical Library series, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521663962nd