Wind, Water, and Mathematics

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 15:30 to 16:30

Thackeray 703G

Speaker Information
This talk will show how kayaking the Colorado river in the Grand Canyon led me to the proof of the 1877 conjecture of Boussinesq, long believed false, on the mathematics of turbulence. I will even give the proof for a simplified version of the equations of fluid motion.
Professor
University of Pittsburgh

Abstract or Additional Information

This talk will show how kayaking the Colorado river in the Grand Canyon led me to the proof of the 1877 conjecture of Boussinesq, long believed false, on the mathematics of turbulence. I will even give the proof for a simplified version of the equations of fluid motion.