The dawn of fluid dynamics : a discipline between science and technology / Michael Eckert.
"This is the first publication to describe the evolution of fluid dynamics as a major field in modern science and engineering. It contains a description of the interaction between applied research and application, taking as its example the history of fluid mechanics in the 20th century. ; The f...
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Weinheim :
Wiley-VCH,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Diverging trends before the twentieth century
- 2. The beginnings of fluid dynamics in Gottingen, 1904-1914
- 3. Aviation and the rise of aerodynamics in the First World War
- 4. The internationalization of fluid mechanics in the 1920s
- 5. A "working program" for research on turbulence
- 6. Aerodynamics comes of age
- 7. New applications
- 8. Prandtl, fluid dynamics and national socialism
- 9. New centers
- 10. Fluid dynamics on the eve of the Second World War
- 11. Epilogue.