Claude-Louis Navier

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Claude-Louis Navier (born Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier; French:

He directed the construction of bridges at Choisy, Asnières and Argenteuil in the Department of the Seine, and built a footbridge to the Île de la Cité in Paris. His 1824 design for the Pont des Invalides failed to leave a safety margin on top of his calculations, and after cracking the bridge had to be dismantled, destroying Navier's bridge-building reputation. He was chastised by a government committee for relying too much on mathematics.^[1]

In 1824, Navier was admitted into the

His major contribution, however, remains the Navier–Stokes equations (1822), central to fluid mechanics.

His name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.

Selected publications

• Rapport à Monsieur Becquey et Mémoire sur les ponts suspendus. Notice sur le pont des Invalides, chez Carillan Gœury, Paris, 1830 (read online (French language))
• Résumé des leçons données à l'École des ponts et chaussées sur l'application de la mécanique à l'Établissement des constructions et des machines, tome 1, Première partie contenant des leçons sur la résistance des matériaux, et sur l'établissement des constructions en terre, en maçonnerie et en charpente, chez Carilian-Gœury 2nd édition), Paris, 1833 (read online (French language))
• Résumé des leçons données à l'École des ponts et chaussées sur l'application de la mécanique à l'Établissement des constructions et des machines, tome 2, Deuxième partie, leçons sur le mouvement et la résistance des fluides, la conduite et la distribution des eaux, Troisième partie, leçons sur l'établissement des machines, chez Carilian-Gœury 2nd édition), Paris, 1838 (read online (French language))
• De l'établissement d'un chemin de fer entre Paris et Le Havre, imprimerie Firmin-Didot, 1826 (read online (French language))
• Mémoire sur les lois du mouvement des fluides, lu à l'Académie royale des Sciences le 18 mars 1822, dans Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences de l'Institut de France - Année 1823, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1827, p. 389-440 (read online (French language))

References

External links

• data BnF : Claude Navier (1785-1836)
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Claude-Louis Navier", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews

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