Henri Bénard: Thermal convection and vortex shedding
Abstract
We present in this article the work of Henri Bénard (1874-1939), French physicist who began the systematic experimental study of two hydrodynamic systems: the thermal convection of fluids heated from below (the Rayleigh-Bénard convection and the Bénard-Marangoni convection) and the periodical vortex shedding behind a bluff body in a flow (the Bénard-Kármán vortex street). Across his scientific biography, we review the interplay between experiments and theory in these two major subjects of fluid mechanics.
- Publication:
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Comptes Rendus Mecanique
- Pub Date:
- July 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.crme.2017.06.006
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1712.07039
- Bibcode:
- 2017CRMec.345..446W
- Keywords:
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- Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics;
- Physics - Fluid Dynamics
- E-Print:
- 41 pages