David Tritton was a fluid dynamicist.
Tritton was born in Slough on 26 July 1935.
He received his PhD under Alan Townsend at Cambridge on "Experiments on Flow past Cylinders and Free Convection"
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Subsequently, he worked at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK.
He was a visiting professor in Texas when he died on 24 April 1998
.Tritton is known for his textbook "Physical Fluid Dynamics".