Background
Craik, Alexander Duncan Davidson was born on August 25, 1938 in Brechin, Angus, Scotland. Son of Alexander and Mary Ford Wyllie (Thomson) Craik.
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This up-to-date and comprehensive account of theory and experiment on wave-interaction phenomena covers fluids both at rest and in their shear flows. It includes, on the one hand, water waves, internal waves, and their evolution, interaction, and associated wave-driven means flow and, on the other hand, phenomena on nonlinear hydrodynamic stability, especially those leading to the onset of turbulence. This study provide a particularly valuable bridge between these two similar, yet different, classes of phenomena. It will be of value to oceanographers, meteorologists, and those working in fluid mechanics, atmospheric and planetary physics, plasma physics, aeronautics, and geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics.
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mathematics educator researcher
Craik, Alexander Duncan Davidson was born on August 25, 1938 in Brechin, Angus, Scotland. Son of Alexander and Mary Ford Wyllie (Thomson) Craik.
Bachelor of Science, University St. Andrews, Scotland, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, University Cambridge, England, 1965.
Lecturer, U. St. Andrews, 1963-1970; senior lecturer, U. St. Andrews, 1970-1974; reader, U. St. Andrews, 1974-1986; professor mathematics, U. St. Andrews, since 1986.
(This up-to-date and comprehensive account of theory and e...)
Married Elizabeth Mary Farmer, July 15, 1964. Children: Peter Alexander, Katharine Anne.