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Klappentext This account of the evolution and coherence of fluid motion theory focuses on achievements by pioneering thinkers from Plato to Mach. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceBasic definitionsFluids and lifeWater and airThe first uses of fluidsMythology and fluidsPlato and fluidsAristotle and the science of fluidsThe birth of fluidstaticsHero of AlexandriaThrough the Dark Ages to the RenaissanceGeneral remarks about Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci's original works on fluidsLeonardo's fluidmechanicsSimon StevinGalileo GalileiEvangelista Torricelli and Otto von GuerickeBlaise PascalSir Isaac NewtonDaniel BernoulliLeonhard EulerLouis de LagrangeJean le Rond d'AlembertChevalier de Borda and others"Chezy, Du Buat, Coulon, Hagen, Poiseuille and Girard"Claude Louis M. H. NavierThe birth of experimental fluidmechanicsBenjamin Robins and Leonhard Euler"Lazare Carnot, Pierre Simon de Laplace and others"Augustin Louis Cauchy and othersHermann von Helmholtz and othersOsborne ReynoldsMikhail Lomonossov and othersThe Russian School of scientific thoughtKonstantin TsiolkovskyNikolai Egorovich ZhukovskyFrederick Lanchester and othersThe Prandtl-Lanchester Lifting Line TheoryFlettner's ruddersFlettner's rotorshipFlettner's rotor windmillAutorotating bodies"Riabouchinsky, Mallock, Benard, von Karman"William Froude and othersTurbulent boundary layer and flow separationMethods of delaying flow separationAirscrewsThe inner structure of fluidsThe velocity of soundErnest Mach and othersThe Chaplygin-Khristianovich methodThe drag wallTranssonic compressibility effects on liftFurther notes on transsonic and aerodynamicsFurther notes on supersonic fluidmechanics: superfluidityHypersonic gasdynamicsThe universal matter-energy continuityIndex
