biography
| name: |
Navier, Claude (Louis Marie Henri)
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pronunciation:
[navyay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1785–1836)
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| biography:
| Civil engineer, born in Dijon, E France. He studied at the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, and for much of his life taught at one or other of these schools, being principally occupied in developing the theoretical basis of structural mechanics and the strength of materials, as well as the work done by machines. He is mostly remembered for the Navier–Stokes equation (with George Stokes) describing the mechanics of a viscous fluid, relating changes in the velocity of the fluid to the pressure and viscous forces acting on it. |
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