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

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2006.Description: x, 286 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 3527405135
  • 9783527405138
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QA911 .E255 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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