Navier

Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier

Born: 10 Feb 1785 in Dijon, France
Died: 21 Aug 1836 in Paris, France

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Navier was educated at the École Polytechnique and became a professor there in 1831. From 1819 until his death he was professor at the École des Ponts et Chaussées.

He worked on applied topics such as engineering, elasticity and fluid mechanics. He made contributions to Fourier series and their application. He gave the well known Navier-Stokes equations for an incompressible fluid in 1821. In 1822 he gave equations for viscous fluids.

A specialist in road and bridge building, he was the first to devlop a theory of suspension bridges which before then had been built to empirical principles.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. A B de Saint-Venant, C Navier, Résumé des lecons donnée à l'École des ponts et chaussées (Paris, 1864).
  3. A Picon, Navier and the introduction of suspension bridges in France, Construction History 4 (1988), 21-34. 
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