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.