| Authorised form of name | Stuart; John Trevor; mathematician |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Leicester, Leicestershire, England |
| Date of birth | 28 January 1929 |
| Date of death | 17 December 2023 |
| Occupation | mathematician and senior research investigator at Imperial College London |
| Research field | Fluid dynamics |
| Theoretical physics |
| Applied mathematics |
| Mathematics |
| Hydrodynamics |
| Fluid mechanics |
| Activity | Education: Imperial College London; Royal College of Science
Career:
Professor of theoretical fluid mechanics, Imperial College (1966); head of the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College (1974-1979; 1983-1986); Dean of the Royal College of Science (1990-1993).
Awards/Medals:
Senior Whitehead Prize 1984
Otto Laporte Award 1987 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 21/03/1974 |
| Age at election | 45 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1982-1984
Publishing Board Ex-Offico: 2003-2007
Physical Sciences Awards Committee Member: 2007-2009
Editor of Royal Society publication Biographical Memoirs 2012-2016 |
| OtherInfo | Known for his work on nonlinear waves in the onset of turbulence in fluids.
Extended the work of Lord Rayleigh with research into steady streaming in unsteady viscous flows at high Reynolds numbers.
Known for the Stuart number; Stuart-Landau equation; Complex Gonzburg-Landau equation. |
| Source | 'Professor Trevor Stuart FRS' on the Royal Society website [URL: https://royalsociety.org/people/trevor-stuart-12364/; last accessed: 20/11/2024] |
| Code | NA2263 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/GA/GRS/6414 | Stuart, John Trevor | nd |
| EC/1974/27 | Stuart, John Trevor: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/79/130 | Referee's report by George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The stability of viscous flow between parallel planes in the presence of a co-planar magnetic field' by John Trevor Stuart | 26 June 1953 |
| RR/79/131 | Letter from George Frederick James Temple, on a paper 'The stability of viscous flow between parallel planes in the presence of a co-planar magnetic field' by John Trevor Stuart, to D C Martin | [August 1953] |
| RR/79/132 | Referee's report by Michael James Lighthill, on a paper 'The stability of viscous flow between parallel planes in the presence of a co-planar magnetic field' by John Trevor Stuart | 16 September 1953 |