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After the war Taylor returned to Trinity and worked on an application of turbulent flow to oceanography.

He also worked on the problem of bodies passing through a rotating fluid.

In 1923 he was appointed to a Royal Society research professorship as a Yarrow Research Professor.

This enabled him to stop teaching which he had been doing for the previous four years and which he both disliked and had no great aptitude for.

It was in this period that he did his most wide-ranging work on the mechanics of fluids and solids including research on the deformation of crystalline materials which followed from his war work at Farnborough.

He also produced another major contribution to turbulent flow, where he introduced a new approach through a statistical study of velocity fluctuations.