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Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Stability of viscous flow between rotating cylinders. I' by D Meksyn

Reference number: RR/69/230

Date: 1945

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The paper seems well-written. It should be explained that Taylors relation is proved in his paper only to a fairly high degree of approximation.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1946].

Date received not given.

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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Stability of viscous flow between rotating cylinders. I' by D Meksyn, 1945, RR/69/230, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_230/referees-report-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-on-a-paper-stability-of-viscous-flow-between-rotating-cylinders-i-by-d-meksyn, accessed on 12 October 2026

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