Joseph Valentin Boussinesq

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Joseph Boussinesq
Faculty of Sciences of Lille (1872–1886)
Faculty of Sciences of Paris
(1896–1918)

Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (pronounced

hydrodynamics
, vibration, light, and heat.

Biography

From 1872 to 1886, he was appointed professor at

École centrale de Lille). From 1896 to his retirement in 1918, he was professor of mechanics at Faculty of Sciences of Paris
.

Lord Rayleigh published his mathematical theory to support Russell's experimental observation. At the end of his paper,[1]
Rayleigh admitted that Boussinesq's theory came before his.

In 1897, he published Théorie de l'écoulement tourbillonnant et tumultueux des liquides ("Theory of the swirling and agitated flow of liquids"), a work that greatly contributed to the study of turbulence and hydrodynamics.

The word "turbulence" was never used by Boussinesq. He used sentences such as "écoulement tourbillonnant et tumultueux" (vortex or tumultuous flow). The first mention of the word "turbulence" in French or English scientific fluid mechanics literature (the word "turbulence" existed in other context) can be found in a paper by Lord Kelvin in 1887.[2]

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