English Explanatory Dictionary

Reynolds operator

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A mathematical operator given by averaging something over a group action, satisfying a set of properties called Reynolds rules, and having applications in fluid dynamics and invariant theory.

Word forms

Reynolds operator Reynolds operators

Etymology

They were introduced into fluid dynamics by Osbourne Reynolds (1895) and named by J. Kampé de Fériet (1934, 1935, 1949).

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