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Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'Primary and secondary vortices in oscillating fluids: their connection with skin friction' by (the late) H Ayrton

Reference number: RR/33/11

Date: March 1926

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, although the referee is unsure what to make of the paper. The experimental part of the paper is 'certainly good and worth publishing' but the theoretical part is 'very thin'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1926].

Endorsed on verso as received 31 March 1926.

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March 1926
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Harold Jeffreys, Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'Primary and secondary vortices in oscillating fluids: their connection with skin friction' by (the late) H Ayrton, March 1926, RR/33/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_33_11/referees-report-by-harold-jeffreys-on-a-paper-primary-and-secondary-vortices-in-oscillating-fluids-their-connection-with-skin-friction-by-the-late-h-ayrton, accessed on 12 December 2024

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