Walter Tollmien (13 October 1900, in Berlin – 25 November 1968, in Göttingen) was a German fluid dynamicist.
In 1957, he took over the post of director at the Max-Planck Institute for fluid mechanics research.
Through his pioneering work as a researcher and a teacher, Walter Tollmien brought fluid mechanics into the lime light and as an inter disciplinary science of extreme importance.
He theoretically demonstrated that the transition from laminar flow to turbulence results in Tollmien–Schlichting waves,[1][2] which were named after him and Hermann Schlichting.
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