The Navier–Stokes equations have governed our understanding of how fluids such as water and air flow for nearly 200 years.
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George Gabriel Stokes was born in Skreen, Co Sligo, on August 13th, 1819, the youngest of seven children of Rev Gabriel Stokes, a rector of the Church of...
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Spanish research has provided insight into the Navier-Stokes equations governing the behavior of fluids.
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A solution to the fiendish Navier–Stokes equations 1 , which carry a US$1 million bounty, he acknowledged he had made a mistake. Now he says he is working to...
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As one of the most influential science administrators of the 19^th century, Stokes made multiple important contributions to maths, physics and...
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We are awash in a world of fluids we don't understand. The air we breathe, the clouds overhead, the gasoline in our car engines,...
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George Gabriel Stokes was a bushy-sideburned Irish physicist and mathematician who for half of the 19th century was the University of...
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Are viscous fluids always smooth in three dimensions? The Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem is one of the seven most complex...
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Mathematician Ian Stewart book takes a look at the most pivotal equations of all time, and puts them in a human, rather than technical...
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The effectiveness of mathematics in predicting the weather calls for celebration, says Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum.
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