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1 online resource (562 pages) |
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List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Question to Be Answered; 1. Mathematicians versus Practical Men: The Founding of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; 2. The Air as an Ideal Fluid: Classical Hydrodynamics and the Foundations of Aerodynamics; 3. Early British Work on Lift and Drag: Rayleigh Flow versus the Aerodynamics of Intuition; 4. Lanchester's Cyclic Theory of Lift and Its Early Reception; 5. Two Traditions: Mathematical Physics and Technical Mechanics; 6. Technische Mechanik in Action: Kutta's Arc and the Joukowsky Wing. |
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7. The Finite Wing: Ludwig Prandtl and the Göttingen School8. "We Have Nothing to Learn from the Hun": Realization Dawns; 9. The Laws of Prandtl and the Laws of Nature; 10. Pessimism, Positivism, and Relativism: Aerodynamic Knowledge in Context; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
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Why do aircraft fly? How do their wings support them? In the early years of aviation, there was an intense dispute between British and German experts over the question of why and how an aircraft wing provides lift. The British, under the leadership of the great Cambridge mathematical physicist Lord Rayleigh, produced highly elaborate investigations of the nature of discontinuous flow, while the Germans, following Ludwig Prandtl in G̲ttingen, relied on the tradition called & ldquo;technical mechanics & rdquo; to explain the flow of air around a wing. Much of the basis of modern aerodynamics e. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-533) and index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Prandtl, Ludwig, 1875-1953.
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Prandtl, Ludwig, 1875-1953. |
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Aerodynamics -- History.
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Aerodynamics. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Bloor, David. Enigma of the Aerofoil : Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2011 9780226060941 |
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9780226060934 |
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0226060934 |
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9780226060941 |
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0226060942 |
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9780226060958 |
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0226060950 |
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