Cyril Frank Colebrook
Cyril Frank Colebrook (born July 26, 1910 in Swansea , Wales , † January 12, 1997 in Worthing , England ) was a British physicist. He made significant contributions to the fundamental understanding of fluid mechanics .
Colebrook was a doctoral student of Cedric Masey White (* October 10, 1898, † December 27, 1993 in Ontario ) with whom he developed the empirical Colebrook-White equation for the calculation of the friction-related pressure drop for turbulent flows in smooth and rough tubes, the basis of the Moody chart . In the German-speaking area, after Colebrook, together with Ludwig Prandtl , an empirical approximation of the runoff with the pipe friction coefficient is named, see flow formula . In the English-speaking world, the Colebrook equation is named after him . In the Spanish-speaking world, the Ecuación de Colebrook-White is named after him.
literature
- with White CM: The Reduction of Carrying Capacity of Pipes with Age , in Journal of The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE, British Association of Civil Engineers), Volume: 7, Issue No: 1, Pages: 99–118, November 1937
- Turbulent flow in pipes, with particular reference to the transition region between the smooth and rough pipe laws J. Inst. Civ. Eng., Lond., 11, pp. 133-156, 1939.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Image on the page for EQUAÇÃO DE COLEBROOK-WHITE (Port.)
- ↑ Marcel Escudier: Introduction to Engineering Fluid Mechanics . Oxford University Press, 2017, p. 543 (Appendix 1) (English, Google Books ).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Colebrook, Cyril Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Swansea , Wales |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1997 |
| Place of death | Worthing , England |