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George Gabriel Stokes’sFundamental Contributions
toFluid Dynamics
Peter LynchSchool of Mathematics & Statistics
University College Dublin
IHoM V, Maynooth, 2 August 2019
Outline
George Gabriel Stokes
New Book on Stokes
Navier-Stokes Equations
Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder
Stokes and the Royal Society
Weather Forecasting Today
Finis
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Outline
George Gabriel Stokes
New Book on Stokes
Navier-Stokes Equations
Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder
Stokes and the Royal Society
Weather Forecasting Today
Finis
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George Gabriel Stokes, 1819–1903
George Gabriel Stokes,founder of modern hydrodynamics.
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Childhood and Education
George Gabriel Stokes was born in Skreen,Co. Sligo on 13 August 1819 [200 years ago].
He was the youngest of seven children of Rev.Gabriel Stokes, Rector of the Church of Ireland.
From an early age, Stokes showed signs of brilliance:
His school-teacher wrote that“Master George was working out new ways of doingsums, far better than those given in the book.”
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The ‘Old’ Rectory at Skreen
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Descendants of Gabriel Stokes(1682–1768), Great-grandfather of GGS
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Childhood and Education
I Educated in Skreen, Dublin and Bristol.I 1837: Pembroke College in Cambridge.I 1841: Graduated as Senior Wrangler.
First place in Mathematical Tripos.Winner of the Smith’s Prize.
Success in Tripos a passport to a great career:
A relative wrote that Stokes had only“. . . to decide whether he would be Prime Minister,Lord Chancellor or Archbishop of Canterbury.”
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Childhood and Education
I Educated in Skreen, Dublin and Bristol.I 1837: Pembroke College in Cambridge.I 1841: Graduated as Senior Wrangler.
First place in Mathematical Tripos.Winner of the Smith’s Prize.
Success in Tripos a passport to a great career:
A relative wrote that Stokes had only“. . . to decide whether he would be Prime Minister,Lord Chancellor or Archbishop of Canterbury.”
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Stokes as Senior Wrangler (1841)
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Career
1841: Elected a Fellow of Pembroke College.
1849: Appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.
Stokes held this chair for over fifty years.
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The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics
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Stokes’s Wife Mary
In 1859 Stokes marriedMary Susannah,
daughter ofThomas Romney
Robinson,astronomer at
Armagh Observatory.
George and Maryhad five children.
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Mathematical & Physical Papers
Stokes’sCollected Works,
in 5 volumes,include some140 papers.
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A Crude but indicative Metric
In his book Hydrodynamics,(6th edition), Horace Lamb
has more than 50 pagereferences to Stokes.
A meaningful H-Factor?
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Some Contributions of Stokes
I Stokes’ TheoremI Stokes DragI Stokes’ LawI Stokes DriftI Stokes WavesI Stokes ParametersI Stokes PhenomenonI Campbell-Stokes Sunshine RecorderI The Navier-Stokes Equations
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Stokes’ Theorem∮Γ
V·d l =
∫ ∫Σ
∇× V · n da .
Stokes’ Theorem was actually discovered by Kelvinin 1854. It’s of central importance in fluid dynamics.
It played a rôle in the development ofV. Bjerknes’ Circulation Theorem:
dCdt
= −∫ ∫
Σ
∇1ρ×∇p·da = −
∮Γ
dpρ,
which generalized Kelvin’s Circulation Theorem tobaroclinic fluids (ρ varying independently of p), andushered in the study of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.
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Stokes Drag and Stokes’ LawA Child’s Query:
Son: Daddy, why don’t clouds fall down?Dad: Clouds do fall, but very slowly!
Stokes formulated the drag law for small particles:
F = 6πµrv
This leads an expression for the terminal velocity:
vs =2r 2ρg
9µ
A droplet of radius 5 microns falls with a terminalspeed of about 3 mm/s (about four days for 1 km).
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Stokes Drag and Stokes’ LawA Child’s Query:
Son: Daddy, why don’t clouds fall down?Dad: Clouds do fall, but very slowly!
Stokes formulated the drag law for small particles:
F = 6πµrv
This leads an expression for the terminal velocity:
vs =2r 2ρg
9µ
A droplet of radius 5 microns falls with a terminalspeed of about 3 mm/s (about four days for 1 km).
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Stokes Flow
Stokes Flow is steady flow in which there is a balancebetween the viscous and pressure gradient forces:
ν∇2V =1ρ∇p .
This balance may be valid for small Reynolds Number.
This balance leads to Stokes’ Paradox: Such flow isnot possible everywhere. The effect of an obstacle isfelt at large distances: inertial terms are important.
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Hydrodynamics: A study in Logic, Factand Similitude. By Garrett Birkhoff
Chapter 1 of the book is entitled
HYDRODYNAMICAL PARADOXES.
By a Paradox, we mean a plausible argument thatyields conclusions at variance with observations.
In fluid systems paradoxes often arise because:I Arbitrarily small causes can produce finite effectsI An apparent symmetry of causes is not
necessarily preserved in the effects.
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Some Paradoxes in Hydrodynamics
I D’Alembert’s ParadoxI The Reversibility ParadoxI Paradoxes of Airfoil TheoryI The Rayleigh ParadoxI Von Neumann’s ParadoxI Kopal’s ParadoxI The Eiffel ParadoxI The Rising Bubble ParadoxI The Magnus Effect ParadoxI Stokes’ Paradox
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Euler’s Equations
Leonhard Euler, born on 15April, 1707 in Basel. Diedon 18 September, 1783 inSt Petersburg.
Euler formulated the equa-tions for incompressible,inviscid fluid flow:
∂V∂t
+ V · ∇V +1ρ∇p = g .
∇ · V = 0
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Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
A body moving at constant speed through a gas or afluid does not experience any resistance (d’Al. 1752).
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Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
D’Alembert expressed his concerns thus:
“I do not see how one can satisfactorilyexplain, by theory, the resistance of fluids.”
He remarked that the theory leads to“a singular paradox which I leave tofuture geometers for elucidation.”
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Hypothetical Fluid Flow
Purely Inviscid Flow.Upstream-downstream symmetry.
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Actual Fluid Flow
Viscous Flow.Strong upstream-downstream assymmetry.
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Resolution of d’Alembert’s Paradox
The minutest amount of viscosity has a profoundqualitative impact on the character of the solution.
The N-S equations incorporate the effect of viscosity.
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Outline
George Gabriel Stokes
New Book on Stokes
Navier-Stokes Equations
Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder
Stokes and the Royal Society
Weather Forecasting Today
Finis
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Stokes: Life, Science and Faith
George Gabriel Stokes: Life, Science and Faith.Eds. Mark McCartney, Andrew Whitaker, and Alastair Wood,
Oxford University Press (2019). ISBN: 978-0-1988-2286-8
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Stokes: Life, Science and Faith
Table of Contents
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Outline
George Gabriel Stokes
New Book on Stokes
Navier-Stokes Equations
Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder
Stokes and the Royal Society
Weather Forecasting Today
Finis
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C. L. M. H. Navier, 1785–1836
Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier
See Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol 50, 7– 13 (Jan. 2003).
Article on Navier’s collapsing bridge.
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Basic Publications and Review
Navier, C. L. M. H., 1822:Mémoire sur les lois du mouvement des fluides.Mém. Acad. Sci. Inst. France, Vol. 6, 389–440.
Stokes, G. G., 1845:On the theories of the internal friction of fluids in motion.Trans. Cambridge Philos. Soc., Vol. 8.
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Between Hydrodynamics and Elasticity Theory:The First Five Births of the Navier-Stokes Equation.
Olivier Darrigol, 2002: Arch. Hist. Exact Sci.,Vol. 56, (2), 95–150.
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Basic Publications and Review
Navier, C. L. M. H., 1822:Mémoire sur les lois du mouvement des fluides.Mém. Acad. Sci. Inst. France, Vol. 6, 389–440.
Stokes, G. G., 1845:On the theories of the internal friction of fluids in motion.Trans. Cambridge Philos. Soc., Vol. 8.
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Between Hydrodynamics and Elasticity Theory:The First Five Births of the Navier-Stokes Equation.
Olivier Darrigol, 2002: Arch. Hist. Exact Sci.,Vol. 56, (2), 95–150.
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The Navier-Stokes Equations
∂V∂t
+ V · ∇V +1ρ∇p = ν∇2V .
The Navier-Stokes Equations describe how thechange of velocity (the acceleration) is determined bythe pressure gradient force and frictional force.
For motion relative to the rotating earth,we include gravity and the Coriolis force:
∂V∂t
+ V · ∇V + 2Ω×V +1ρ∇p = ν∇2V + g .
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The Navier-Stokes Equations
∂V∂t
+ V · ∇V +1ρ∇p = ν∇2V .
The Navier-Stokes Equations describe how thechange of velocity (the acceleration) is determined bythe pressure gradient force and frictional force.
For motion relative to the rotating earth,we include gravity and the Coriolis force:
∂V∂t
+ V · ∇V + 2Ω×V +1ρ∇p = ν∇2V + g .
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Outline
George Gabriel Stokes
New Book on Stokes
Navier-Stokes Equations
Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder
Stokes and the Royal Society
Weather Forecasting Today
Finis
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An Early Sunshine Recorder
Athanasius Kircher wasProfessor of Mathematicsand Hebrew at the CollegioRomano.
Around 1646 he devised arecording sundial calledthe Horologium Helio-causticum.
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The Horologium Helio-causticumA Sundial is drawn in the shell, “together with things
for burning and making sounds.”
“With light and sound the glassy sphere shows theethe hours; truly, it is the work of the heavenly fire.”
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Campbell’s Sunshine Recorder.
The “self-registering sundial”of J. F. Campbell (c. 1853).
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Robert Henry Scott (1833–1916)
Robert Scott, born inDublin, was founder ofValentia Observatory andfirst Director of the BritishMet Office.
Scott proposed some im-provements to Campbell’ssunshine recorder.
The detailed design was due to G. G. Stokes.
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Stokes’ Quarterly Journal Paper
Description of the Card Supporter for SunshineRecorders adopted at the Meteorological Office
George Gabriel StokesQuarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society,
Vol. 6 (1880) 83–94.
“The method of recording sunshine by the burning of anobject placed in the focus of a glass sphere freely exposedto the rays of the sun, which was devised by Mr. Campbell,
commends itself by its simplicity, and seems likely tocome into pretty general use.”
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Stokes’ Quarterly Journal Paper
Description of the Card Supporter for SunshineRecorders adopted at the Meteorological Office
George Gabriel StokesQuarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society,
Vol. 6 (1880) 83–94.
In the discussion following the reading of the paper,a Mr. Mawley remarked:
“The fact of this sunshine-recorder being in all respectsan English invention, adds much to its interest.”
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Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder
No moving parts.
One moving part!(In Biblical Coordinates)
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Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder
No moving parts.
One moving part!(In Biblical Coordinates)
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Outline
George Gabriel Stokes
New Book on Stokes
Navier-Stokes Equations
Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder
Stokes and the Royal Society
Weather Forecasting Today
Finis
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Royal Society
1851: Stokes elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.(Along with William Thomson, Thomas H. Huxley and John Tyndall.)
1854–1884: Stokes Secretary of the Royal Society
President from 1885 to 1890.
“I am naturally of rather a retiring character,and should feel not a little out of my element
in being brought so prominently forward.”
Stokes to Th. R. Robinson.
T. H. Huxley criticised Stokes for his “ultra-“conservative and theological viewpoint.”
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Stokes as President of Royal Society
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President of Royal Society
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Prominent Members of the Royal Society
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Royal Society
William Thomson followed Stokes as PRS.Stokes awarded Copley Medal in 1893.
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Outline
George Gabriel Stokes
New Book on Stokes
Navier-Stokes Equations
Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder
Stokes and the Royal Society
Weather Forecasting Today
Finis
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Equations of the Atmosphere
GAS LAW (Boyle’s Law and Charles’ Law.)Relates the pressure, temperature and density
CONTINUITY EQUATIONConservation of mass; air not created or distroyed
WATER CONTINUITY EQUATIONConservation of water (liquid, solid and gas)
EQUATIONS OF MOTION: Navier-Stokes EquationsDescribe how the change of velocity is determined by the pressure gradient, Coriolis force and friction
THERMODYNAMIC EQUATIONChanges of temperature due to heating, cooling, compression, rarifaction, etc.
Seven equations; seven variables (u, v ,w , ρ,p,T ,q).
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Weather Forecasting in a Nut-Shell
I The atmosphere is a physical system
I Its behaviour is governed by the laws of physics
I These laws are expressed quantitatively in the form ofmathematical equations
I Using observations, we can specify the atmosphericstate: “Today’s Weather”
I Using the equations, we can calculate how this statechanges with time: “Tomorrow’s Weather”
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Long-term Skill Growth
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Forecast of Hurricane Sandy
Figure : Landfall, New Jersey, 30 October 2012
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Outline
George Gabriel Stokes
New Book on Stokes
Navier-Stokes Equations
Campbell-Stokes Sunshine Recorder
Stokes and the Royal Society
Weather Forecasting Today
Finis
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Summary
Stokes never forgot his origins in Skreen.
He returned to Sligo and elsewhere in Irelandregularly for summer vacations.
In one of his heavily mathematical papers he wrote of
“the surf that breaks upon the western coastsas a result of storms out in the Atlantic”,
recalling the majestic rollers thundering in ashe strolled as a boy along Dunmoran Strand.
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Thank you
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