Navier-stokes problem
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Claude-Louis Navier
French engineer and physicist (1785–1836)
Claude-Louis Navier (born Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier; French:[klodlwimaʁiɑ̃ʁinavje]; 10 February 1785 – 21 August 1836) was a French Civil engineer, affiliated with the French government, and a physicist who specialized in continuum mechanics.
The Navier–Stokes equations refer eponymously to him, with George Gabriel Stokes.
Biography
After the death of his father in 1793, Navier's mother left his education in the hands of his uncle Émiland Gauthey, an engineer with the Corps of Bridges and Roads(Corps des Ponts et Chaussées). In 1802, Navier enrolled at the École polytechnique, and in 1804 continued his studies at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, from which he graduated in 1806. He eventually succeeded his uncle as Inspecteur general at the Corps des Ponts et Chaussées.
He directed the construction of bridges at Choisy, Asnières and Argenteuil in the Department of the Seine, and built a footbridge to the Île de la Cité in Paris. His 1824 design for the Pont des Invalide
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Henri Navier
Henri Navier
Portrait of Henri Navier, mathematician
Biography
Henri Navier is one of 72 scientists whose name is inscribed on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower. It is the 16th, on the face facing North.
Claude-Louis-Marie-Henri Navier, mathematician, was born in Dijon, February 15, 1785. He died in Paris, August 23, 1836. He entered the Ecole Polytechnique in 1802; he went out in 1804 to go through the School of Bridges and Roads. He had the idea at that time to annotate the works of Gauthey, the famous engineer, his great-uncle, and the volume on Hydraulic Architecture, Belidor, and publish new editions. These works led him in 1824 to the Academy of Sciences, as well as to the Ecole Polytechnique, where he professed analysis and mechanics. He was commissioned to go to England to study the construction of the suspension bridges and to establish, on his return, that of the Invalides on the Seine, which in 1857 was replaced by the Alma Bridge. He had begun by throwing on the river a single arch of 155 meters opening, the monumental effect of which enh
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Navier, Claude-Louis-Marie-Henri
(b. Dijon, France, 10 February 1785; d. Paris, France, 21 August 1836)
engineering, mechanics.
During the French Revolution, Navier’s father was a lawyer to the Legislative Assembly at Paris and his mother’s uncle, the engineer Emiland Gauthey, worked in the head office of the Corps des Ponts et Chaussées at Paris. After her husband’s death in 1793, Navier’s mother moved back to Chalon-sur-Saône and left her son in Paris, under the tutelage of her uncle. In 1802, after receiving preparation from his granduncle, Navier entered the École Polytechnique near the bottom of the list; but he did so well during his first year that he was one of ten students sent to work in the field at Boulogne instead of spending their second year in Paris. Navier’s first year at the École Polytechnique had critical significance for the formation of his scientific style, which reflects that of Fourier because the latter was briefly his professor of analysis. He subsequently became Fourier’s protégé and friend.
In 1804 Navier entered the École des Ponts et Chaus
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