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    Osborne Reynolds FRS (23 August 1842 – 21 February 1912) was an Irish-born British innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics. Separately, his studies...
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    introduced by George Stokes in 1851, but the Reynolds number was named by Arnold Sommerfeld in 1908 after Osborne Reynolds (1842–1912), who popularized its use...
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  • Reynolds equation is a partial differential equation governing the pressure distribution of thin viscous fluid films. It was first derived by Osborne...
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  • the Reynolds transport theorem (also known as the Leibniz–Reynolds transport theorem), or simply the Reynolds theorem, named after Osborne Reynolds (1842–1912)...
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  • Norman Reynolds (1934–2023), British Academy Award-winning art director Osborne Reynolds (1842–1912), Irish physicist and engineer Pam Reynolds, American...
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  • time-averaged and fluctuating quantities, an idea first proposed by Osborne Reynolds. The RANS equations are primarily used to describe turbulent flows...
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    effect was first described scientifically by Osborne Reynolds in 1885/1886 and is also known as Reynolds dilatancy. It was brought into the field of geotechnical...
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  • place of the Reynolds averaging. The method was introduced formally by the French scientist A. J. Favre in 1965, although Osborne Reynolds has also already...
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  • zero bulk velocity. This boundary condition was first proposed by Osborne Reynolds, who observed this behaviour while performing his influential pipe...
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    by the position and direction of turbulent flow. In 1883, scientist Osborne Reynolds conducted a fluid dynamics experiment involving water and dye, where...
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  • American composer Winton B. Osborne (died 1998), American politician Osborne Reynolds, innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics Osbeorn Bulax, Anglo-Saxon...
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    appointment caused considerable surprise, given that candidates such as Osborne Reynolds or Richard Glazebrook were older and more experienced in laboratory...
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    and is most often used in the context of boundary layers. In 1883 Osborne Reynolds demonstrated the transition to turbulent flow in a classic experiment...
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    William Crawford Williamson Robert Dukinfield Darbishire Balfour Stewart Osborne Reynolds Dr Henry Edward Schunck (III) Prof. Sir Arthur Schuster Henry Wilde...
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  • 1850, it became popularized by Osborne Reynolds after whom the concept was named by Arnold Sommerfeld in 1908. The Reynolds number is calculated as: R e...
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    accepted theory was formulated by Osborne Reynolds, who theorized that thermal transpiration was the cause of the motion. Reynolds found that if a porous plate...
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  • (Ludwig Prandtl, Theodore von Kármán), while various scientists such as Osborne Reynolds, Andrey Kolmogorov, and Geoffrey Ingram Taylor advanced the understanding...
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    Medallists Recipients Henry Edward Schunck (1898) Sir Henry Roscoe (1900) Osborne Reynolds (1903) Sir Ernest Rutherford (1919) Sir Joseph 'J. J.' Thomson (1931)...
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    Berlin). The dimensionless numbers Reynolds number (named after the British scientist and mathematician Osborne Reynolds), and Froude number (named after...
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    Medallists Recipients Henry Edward Schunck (1898) Sir Henry Roscoe (1900) Osborne Reynolds (1903) Sir Ernest Rutherford (1919) Sir Joseph 'J. J.' Thomson (1931)...
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    and on the friction of a paddle wheel rotating in a vat of water. Osborne Reynolds (1866) derived the equation of viscous flow. This completed the classic...
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    George Gideon Oliver Osborne CH (born 23 May 1971) is a British retired politician and newspaper editor who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from...
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    the University of Manchester, where his physics teachers included Osborne Reynolds and Balfour Stewart. From 1872 to 1876 he was a student at the University...
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    mean value and a turbulent fluctuation was originally proposed by Osborne Reynolds in 1895, and is considered to be the beginning of the systematic mathematical...
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  • 1886–87 Robert Dukinfield Darbishire 1887–88 Balfour Stewart 1888–90 Osborne Reynolds 1890–92 Dr Henry Edward Schunck (III) 1892–94 Prof. Sir Arthur Schuster...
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    problems and riders for the year 1847. In 1894, Irish fluid dynamicist Osborne Reynolds (1842–1912) studied the formation and collapse of vapor bubbles in...
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    indices that are still used today for soil classification. In 1885, Osborne Reynolds recognized that shearing causes volumetric dilation of dense materials...
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    William Crawford Williamson Robert Dukinfield Darbishire Balfour Stewart Osborne Reynolds Dr Henry Edward Schunck (III) Prof. Sir Arthur Schuster Henry Wilde...
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  • modern concepts of dimension and unit. Later work by British physicists Osborne Reynolds and Lord Rayleigh contributed to the understanding of dimensionless...
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    associated with the university include physicists Ernest Rutherford, Osborne Reynolds, Niels Bohr, James Chadwick, Arthur Schuster, Hans Geiger, Ernest Marsden...
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