Henri B\'enard: Thermal convection and vortex shedding
History and Philosophy of Physics
2017-12-20 v1 Fluid Dynamics
Abstract
We present in this article the work of Henri B\'enard (1874-1939), French physicist who began the systematic experimental study of two hydrodynamic systems: the thermal convection of fluids heated from below (the Rayleigh-B\'enard convection and the B\'enard-Marangoni convection) and the periodical vortex shedding behind a bluff body in a flow (the B\'enard-K\'arm\'an vortex street). Across his scientific biography, we review the interplay between experiments and theory in these two major subjects of fluid mechanics.
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@article{arxiv.1712.07039,
title = {Henri B\'enard: Thermal convection and vortex shedding},
author = {J. E. Wesfreid},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.07039},
year = {2017}
}
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