Keith Stewartson
Keith Stewartson | |
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| Doctoral advisor | Leslie Howarth[1] |
Keith Stewartson (20 September 1925 – 7 May 1983) was an English mathematician and fellow of the Royal Society.[2]
Early life
The youngest of three children, Stewartson was born to an English baker in 1925. He was raised in
Stockton Secondary School, and went to St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1942. He won the Drury Prize in 1943 for his work in the Mathematical Tripos.[3][4]
Career
After graduation, with the Second World War still on-going, Stewartson began employment with the
shear layers, magnetohydrodynamics, triple-deck theory, and Reynolds number. He played major role in the founding of Institute of Mathematics and its Applications along with James Lighthill.[5] In his career he authored 186 papers.[3][4]
Natural convection boundary-layers along horizontal plate also known as the indirect convection was first explained by Stewartson in 1958.[6]
Books
- Keith Stewartson (1964). The theory of laminar boundary layers in compressible fluids. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198535041.
Personal life
Stewartson was known as a passionate
heart attack which he recovered from, before suffering a subsequent one in 1983 which hospitalized him.[7] Two weeks later he had a third heart attack which proved fatal.[3][4]
External links
References
- ^ "Keith Stewartson - the Mathematics Genealogy Project".
- ^ Lighthill, M. J. (1985). Keith Stewartson, 20 September 1925-7 May 1983.
- ^ a b c "Keith Stewartson Biography". www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
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- ^ "Origins of the Institute".
- ^ Stewartson, K. (1958). On the free convection from a horizontal plate. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik ZAMP, 9(3), 276-282.
- ^ "Keith Stewartson". www.aprender-mat.info. Archived from the original on 20 August 2017.
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