Joseph Boussinesq (1842--1929): a pioneer of mechanical modelling at the end of the 19th century

DOI10.1016/J.CRME.2007.08.002MaRDI QIDQ2478083zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierre-Antoine Bois

Publication date 14 March 2008

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mécanique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crme.2007.08.002

zbMATH Keywords

BBO equationBoussinesqhistory of mathematical modelling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70)

Review text

The author discusses life and work of an important French mathematician, Joseph Boussinesq. Boussinesq successfully studied stresses in pulverulent masses. He tackled surface waves in canals and found the Boussinesq equation, closely related to the Korteweg-de Vries equation. He crucially contributed to the BBO-equation governing the motion of particles floating in the air. He worked on potential theory (the `Boussinesq Problem'), on turbulence (`Boussinesq's Hypothesis') and on the analytical theory of heat (the `Boussinesq Approximation').

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