Worlds of Flow: A history of hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Worlds of Flow: A history of hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl Book

Provides the history of hydrodynamics including accounts of the problems of hydraulics navigation blood circulation meteorology and aeronautics that motivated the main conceptual innovations. This book documents the foundational role of fluid mechanics in developing a mathematical physics.Read More

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    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.

  • 0198568436
  • 9780198568438
  • Olivier Darrigol
  • 1 September 2005
  • OUP Oxford
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 376
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