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Authorised form of nameRelf; Ernest Frederick (1888 - 1970)
Dates1888 - 1970
Date of birth02 October 1888
Date of death25/02/1970
ActivityCareer:
Superintendent, Aerodynamics Department, National Physical Laboratory
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/05/1936
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1971 vol 17 pp 593-616, plate, by A R Collar
CodeNA753
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
PB/4/8/37Correspondence with Ernest F Relf1942
IM/GA/WS/1198Relf, Ernest Fredericknd
RR/63/114Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'Application of the modified vorticity transport theory to the turbulent spreading of a jet of air' by S TomotikaNovember 1937
RR/63/65Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'The suspension of solids in a turbulent stream' by E G RichardsonJuly 1937
RR/65/116Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'The lift and moment on a flat plate in a stream of finite width' by Thomas Henry HavelockMarch 1938
RR/57/66Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'On the forms of waterlines of ships and errors in their numeric integration' by Westcott Stile Abell[September 1936]
RR/58/5Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'The forces on a circular cylinder submerged in a uniform stream' by Thomas Henry HavelockSeptember 1936
RR/63/108Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'The spectrum of turbulence' by Geoffrey Ingram TaylorDecember 1937
RR/63/109Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'Production and dissipation of vorticity in a turbulent fluid' by Geoffrey Ingram TaylorDecember 1937
RR/65/25Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'The use of a vertical pipe as an overflow for a large tank' by Alfred Maurice BinnieAugust 1938
RR/63/92Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'An experimental determination of the spectrum of turbulence' by L F G Simmons, C Salter and Geoffrey Ingram TaylorDecember 1937
RR/63/113Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'On the velocity and temperature distributions in the turbulent wake behind a heated body of revolution' by S Tomotika1937
RR/65/257Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'Measurements with a half-pitot tube' by Geoffrey Ingram TaylorApril 1938
RR/69/136Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on two papers 'Linearized supersonic aerofoil theory parts I and II' by J C Gunn1946
RR/70/143Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'Concerning the effect of compressibility on laminar boundary layers and their separation' by Leslie Howarth1947
RR/72/231Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'Large elastic deformations of isotropic materials VI. Further results in the theory of torsion, shear and flexure' by R S Rivlin1949
RR/62/49Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'Flow in pipes and between parallel planes' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor[November 1936]
EC/1936/14Relf, Ernest Frederick: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/62/48Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on two papers 'Fluid friction between rotating cylinders I—Torque measurements' and 'Fluid friction between rotating cylinders II—distribution of velocity between concentric cylinders when outer one is rotating and inner one is at rest' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor[September 1936]
RR/57/117Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'Conformal transformation with the aid of an electrical tank' by K N E Bradfield, Stanley George Hooker and Richard Vynne Southwell[November 1936]
RR/64/114Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'The conical shock wave formed by a cone moving at a high speed' by J W Maccoll[January 1937]
RR/57/119Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'On the properties of real fluids' by S C Bradford[August 1936]
RR/59/98Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'The similarity theory of turbulence, and flow between parallel planes and through pipes' by Sydney Goldstein[November 1936]
RR/62/46Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'Correlation measurements in a turbulent flow through a pipe' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor[September 1936]
RR/66/38Referee's report by Ernest Frederick Relf, on a paper 'The general motion of the aeroplane' by S Brodetsky[February 1939]
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