David John Tritton (26 July 1935 – 24 April 1998) was an English physicist who specialised in fluid dynamics.
[1] He was educated at the University of Cambridge and obtained his PhD with a dissertation on "Experiments on Flow past Cylinders and Free Convection", supervised by Alan A.
[2] Subsequently, he worked at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK.
He was a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin when he died on 24 April 1998.
[3] Tritton is well known for his textbook Physical Fluid Dynamics, first published in 1977, with a second edition in 1988.