Worlds of Flow - A History of Hydrodynamics From the Bernoullis to Prandtl

Zusatztext A fascinating and well written book. Informationen zum Autor Olivier Darrigol is Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France. His previous book, Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein (OUP 2000), won the Marc-Auguste Pictet prize of the Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve in 2000. In 2004, he was awarded the Grammaticakis-Neumann prize of the French Academy of Sciences. Klappentext This book provides the first fully-fledged history of hydrodynamics! including lively accounts of the concrete problems of hydraulics! navigation! blood circulation! meteorology! and aeronautics that motivated the main conceptual innovations. Richly illustrated it becomes a standard reference for any interested in fluid mechanics. Zusammenfassung This book provides the first fully-fledged history of hydrodynamics, including lively accounts of the concrete problems of hydraulics, navigation, blood circulation, meteorology, and aeronautics that motivated the main conceptual innovations. Richly illustrated it becomes a standard reference for any interested in fluid mechanics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The dynamical equations 2: Water waves 3: Viscosity 4: Vortices 5: Instability 6: Turbulence 7: Drag and lift

Product details

• Authors: Olivier Darrigol, Olivier (History of Science Darrigol, Darrigol Olivier
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2008
• EAN: 9780199559114
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955911-4
• No. of pages: 358
• Dimensions: 169 mm x 245 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); MATHEMATICS / General, SCIENCE / Mechanics / Fluids, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General), Mathematics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Hydraulics, Fluid mechanics, Engineering: general, Physics: Fluid mechanics, Hydraulics & pneumatics, Hydraulics / Pneumatics