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Kenneth Walters

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Doctoral advisor
  
James G. Oldroyd

Alma mater
  
Swansea University

Academic advisor
  
James G. Oldroyd

Notable awards
  
FRS (1991)

Fields
  
Fluid mechanics, Rheology

Institution
  
Aberystwyth University

Institutions
  
University of Aberystwyth

Thesis
  
Some Elastico-Viscous Liquids with Continuous and Discrete Relaxation Spectra (1959)

Notable award
  
Fellow of the Royal Society (1991)

Books
  
Rheology: An Historical Perspective, Rheometry

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Kenneth Walters FRS is a British mathematician and rheologist. He is a Distinguished Research Professor at the Institute Of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science of the Aberystwyth University.

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Education

Walters earned his PhD from the University of Swansea in 1959 under the supervision of James G. Oldroyd. His thesis was entitled Some Elastico-Viscous Liquids with Continuous and Discrete Relaxation Spectra.

Work

Walters has made contributions to rheology and the development of rheological science in the United Kingdom, and has conducted extensive studies of the behaviour of non-Newtonian fluids, particularly elastic liquids. He has made advances in two major areas: the measurement of rheological properties, and the numerical solution of complex flows. In the first area, he has extended the theory of viscometric flows, carried out a searching analysis of sources of error in the principal instruments in current use, and was involved in industrial applications arising in the manufacture of lubricants, detergents and paints. His book, Rheometry, is a standard work of reference and the book Numerical Simulation of Non-Newtonian Flow, of which he is joint author, is an influential text in this field of research.

Awards and honours

Walters was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1991.

References

Kenneth Walters Wikipedia