Jump to content

Duhamel

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Duhamel is an historic surname from Northern French and Belgian families, especially from Normandy, Picardy and the Romance Low Countries (Artois and Romance Flanders), meaning from the hamlet, or from home as the word hamlet comes from the root word home. By migration, this surname is also frequent in the east of France and Switzerland and by offshore migration in the US and mainly in Canada. The name may refer to:

People

[edit]

Places

[edit]

Others

[edit]
  • Duhamel's principle or Duhamel's formula, a general method for obtaining solutions to inhomogeneous linear evolution equations
  • Duhamel's integral is used in engineering / response theory to calculate the response of a linear system to an arbitrary excitation, provided the excitation to an impulse function is known
  • 19617 Duhamel, an asteroid named for Jean-Marie Duhamel
  • the Duhamel procedure, an operation to treat Hirschsprung's disease