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Author Eckert, Michael, 1949-

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

Publication Info. Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, [2006]
©2006

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 Moore Stacks  QA911 .E255 2006    Available  ---
Description x, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Diverging trends before the twentieth century -- The beginnings of fluid dynamics in Göttingen, 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.
Subject Prandtl, Ludwig, 1875-1953.
Prandtl, Ludwig, 1875-1953.
Fluid dynamics -- History.
Fluid dynamics.
History.
Fluid dynamics -- Research -- History.
Fluid dynamics -- Research.
ISBN 3527405135
9783527405138