Rankine, William John MacQuorn

See also Parsons, Charles Algernon Rankine, William John Macquorn Steam Engines Turbines, Gas Turbines, Wind. 

Rankine, William John Macquorn (1820-1872) Dennis R. Diehl... 

Rankine William John Macquorn (1 820-1872) Scot, phys., researched thermodynamic theory of steam, engine performance, water waves Raoult Francois Marie (1830-1901) Fr. phys., developed (Raoult s) Law for vapor pressure of solvent in solution being proportional to the number ratio of solvent/solute molecules, demonstrated depression of freezing points proportionally to concentration of dissolved substances Rayleigh see Strutt... 

The basic steam cycle for a steam turbine installation is called a Rankine cycle (named after Scottish engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine). This cycle consists of a compression of liquid water, heating and evaporation in the heat source (a steam boiler or nuclear reactor), expansion of the... 

William John Macquorn Rankine (1820-1872) Scottish engineer and physicist Glasgow, UK. 

The Navier-Stokes equations result from the work of Erench engineer Claude-Louis Navier and British physicist George Gabriel Stokes in the mid-nineteenth century. They did not work together, but their equations apply to incompressible flows. The Navier-Stokes equations are still used. At the end of the nineteenth century, Scottish engineer William John Macquorn Rankine changed the understanding of the way fluids... 

Other researchers were bringing on alternatives to these drawn and intuitive methods. A sequence of successes attracted talented mathematicians towards research in statics. Studies of differential equations seemed to show that certain of their characteristics, such as critical points, represented physical phenomena, providing otherwise unattainable insights into the nature of structural instability. Among a host of workers, D.J. Jourawski (1821-1891), Gustave Kirchoff (1824-1887), George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903), Franz Neumann (1798-1895) and William John Macquorn Rankine... 

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