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. It documents the foundational role of fluid mechanics in developing a new mathematical physics. It gives full and clear accounts of the conceptual breakthroughs of physicists and engineers who tried to meet challenges in the practical worlds of hydraulics, navigation, blood circulation, meteorology, and aeronautics. And it shows how hydrodynamics at last began to fulfill its early promise to unify the different worlds of flow. Richly illustrated, technically competent, and philosophically sensitive, it should attract a broad audience and become a standard reference for any one interested in fluid mechanics.
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"This is a book that all practising fluid dynamicists must read: I hope there will be a paperback edition soon, so that the strange history of the subject that Darrigol describes with such insight will become part of the intellectual legacy of interested students in engineering, mathematics and physics."--Nature
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Olivier Darrigol is Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France.
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upper trade winds, backwater equation, vortex sponge, fluid slice, potential ascent, imperfect fluidity, fluid filaments, internal fluid friction, vortex theorems, similitude conditions, finite slip, columnar vortex, perfect liquid, plane water surface, wide rectangular channel, eddying motion, fluid resistance, vortex sheet, ship resistance, compound pendulum, vortex filaments, smoke jets, discharge law, discontinuity surfaces Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Daniel Bernoulli, Johann Bernoulli, William Thomson, Ludwig Prandtl, British Association, Scott Russell, Lord Rayleigh, William Froude, Hermann Helmholtz, Academy of Sciences, Royal Institution, Great Eastern, Gotthilf Hagen, French Academy, John Tyndall, Horace Lamb, Osborne Reynolds, William Orr, Frederick Lanchester, George Francis, Charles Bossut, Leonhard Euler, James Clerk Maxwell, Walter Tollmien, James Thomson Browse Sample Pages:
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upper trade winds, backwater equation, vortex sponge, fluid slice, potential ascent, imperfect fluidity, fluid filaments, internal fluid friction, vortex theorems, similitude conditions, finite slip, columnar vortex, perfect liquid, plane water surface, wide rectangular channel, eddying motion, fluid resistance, vortex sheet, ship resistance, compound pendulum, vortex filaments, smoke jets, discharge law, discontinuity surfaces Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Daniel Bernoulli, Johann Bernoulli, William Thomson, Ludwig Prandtl, British Association, Scott Russell, Lord Rayleigh, William Froude, Hermann Helmholtz, Academy of Sciences, Royal Institution, Great Eastern, Gotthilf Hagen, French Academy, John Tyndall, Horace Lamb, Osborne Reynolds, William Orr, Frederick Lanchester, George Francis, Charles Bossut, Leonhard Euler, James Clerk Maxwell, Walter Tollmien, James Thomson Browse Sample Pages:
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