The dawn of fluid dynamics : a discipline between science and technology /

Eckert, Michael, 1949-

The dawn of fluid dynamics : a discipline between science and technology / Michael Eckert. - Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2006. - x, 286 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Diverging trends before the twentieth century -- The beginnings of fluid dynamics in G�ottingen, 1904-1914 -- Aviation and the rise of aerodynamics in the First World War -- The internationalization of fluid mechanics in the 1920s -- A "working program" for research on turbulence -- Aerodynamics comes of age -- New applications -- Prandtl, fluid dynamics and National Socialism -- New centers -- Fluid dynamics on the eve of the Second World War.

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013221642 Uk


Prandtl, Ludwig, 1875-1953.


Fluid dynamics--History.
Fluid dynamics--Research--History.
Reologie.

QA911 / .E255 2006