Burgers' equation
Ecuación de Burgers
- Date
- 1915 (Bateman) / 1948 (Burgers) · confidence medium
- Place
- Delft, Netherlands
- Credited to
- Jan Burgers
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Convection-diffusion partial differential equation, fundamental in fluid mechanics and gas dynamics, introduced by Harry Bateman and studied extensively by Johannes Burgers.
What it led to
- Turbulence and shock-wave models in fluid mechanics
- Study of solitons and nonlinear perturbations
- Applications in traffic flow and nonlinear acoustics