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A perspective of Batchelor's research in micro-hydrodynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2010

JOHN HINCH
JOHN HINCH*
Affiliation:
DAMTP-CMS, Cambridge University, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK
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†Email address for correspondence: E.J.Hinch@damtp.cam.ac.uk
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Abstract

Batchelor made his name with research in turbulence in the 1940s and 1950s. He became disillusioned with turbulence at the Marseille meeting in 1961. At the end of the 1960s, he started his second wave of research on low-Reynolds-number suspensions of particles. Ten years after he died, I will describe his key results, what was before and what followed. Eight of his 10 most cited papers are in micro-hydrodynamics.

JFM classification

Micro-/Nano-fluid dynamics: Micro-/Nano-fluid dynamics
Type
Batchelor and Crighton Commemorative Talks
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 663 , 25 November 2010 , pp. 8 - 17
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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