Howell Peregrine
Howell Peregrine (30 December 1938 – 20 March 2007) was a British applied mathematician noted for his contributions to fluid mechanics, especially of free surface flows such as water waves, and coastal engineering.[1][2][3]
D. Howell Peregrine | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 December 1938 |
| Died | 20 March 2007 (aged 68) |
| Alma mater | Oxford University Cambridge University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Fluid mechanics Coastal engineering |
| Institutions | University of Bristol |
| Doctoral advisor | T. Brooke Benjamin FRS |
Education and career edit
Howell Peregrine joined the Mathematics Department of University of Bristol in 1964 following his undergraduate and postgraduate training at Oxford and Cambridge.[4] He spent his entire career at Bristol. One of his most remarkable contributions was the theoretical prediction of a new nonlinear entity, now called the Peregrine soliton,[5] that may explain the formation of hydrodynamics rogue waves and that has also been experimentally demonstrated more than 25 years later in the field of nonlinear fiber optics [6][7] and then in 2011 in hydrodynamics with experiments in a water wave tank.[8]
He was an associate editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics for more than 25 years.
Howell Peregrine died suddenly after a short battle against cancer. He was at the time a professor emeritus of applied mathematics at the University of Bristol.
Personal edit
Peregrine was known to be a good photographer of natural phenomena. Some of the photographs which he took himself appeared in his papers.[2]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Moffatt, H. K. (2007). "Professor D. Howell Peregrine". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 580: 1–2. Bibcode:2007JFM...580....1M. doi:10.1017/S0022112007999991.
- ^ a b Cooker, M. (2010). "A commemoration of Howell Peregrine, 30 December 1938–20 March 2007". Journal of Engineering Mathematics. 67 (1): 1–9. Bibcode:2010JEnMa..67....1C. doi:10.1007/s10665-009-9331-x.
- ^ Franco, L.; Tomasicchio, G. R.; Lamberti, Alberto, eds. (2007). "In memoriam of Howell Peregrine". Coastal Structures 2007. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference. World Scientific. pp. vii–viii. doi:10.1142/9789814282024_fmatter. ISBN 978-981-4280-99-0.
- ^ "Professor D H Peregrine". bris.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 September 2008.
- ^ Peregrine, D. H. (1983). "Water waves, nonlinear Schrödinger equations and their solutions". J. Austral. Math. Soc. B. 25: 16–43. doi:10.1017/S0334270000003891.
- ^ Kibler, B.; Fatome, J.; Finot, C.; Millot, G.; Dias, F.; Genty, G.; Akhmediev, N.; Dudley, J.M. (2010). "The Peregrine soliton in nonlinear fibre optics". Nature Physics. 6 (10): 790–795. Bibcode:2010NatPh...6..790K. doi:10.1038/nphys1740.
- ^ "Peregrine's 'Soliton' observed at last". bris.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
- ^ Chabchoub, A.; Hoffmann, N.P.; Akhmediev, N. (2011). "Rogue wave observation in a water wave tank". Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 (20): 204502. Bibcode:2011PhRvL.106t4502C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.204502. hdl:1885/70717. PMID 21668234. S2CID 12444306.
External links edit
- D. Howell Peregrine at the Mathematics Genealogy Project