Worlds of flow : a history of hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl /
The first of its kind, this book is an in-depth history of hydrodynamics from its eighteenth-century foundation to its first major successes in twentieth-century hydraulics and aeronautics. This book documents the foundational role of fluid mechanics in developing a new mathematical physics. It give...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Conventions and notation
- Water waves
- Viscosity
- Vortices
- Instability
- Turbulence
- Drag and lift
- Appendix A : Modern discussion of d'Alembert's paradox.