The enigma of the aerofoil : rival theories in aerodynamics, 1909-1930 / David Bloor.

• Mathematicians versus practical men: the founding of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics -- The air as an ideal fluid: classical hydrodynamics and the foundations of aerodynamics -- Early British work on lift and drag: Rayleigh flow versus the aerodynamics of intuition -- Lanchester's cyclic theory of lift and its early reception -- Two traditions: mathematical physics and technical mechanics -- Technische Mechanik in action: Kutta's arc and the Joukowsky wing -- The finite wing: Ludwig Prandtl and the Göttingen school -- '"We have nothing to learn from the Hun": realization dawns -- The laws of Prandtl and the laws of nature -- Pessimism, positivism, and relativism: aerodynamic knowledge in context.

Ämnesord

Aerodynamics  -- History. (LCSH)

Aerodynamik  -- historia (sao)

Personnamn

Prandtl, Ludwig, 1875-1953.

Klassifikation

TL570 (LCC)

629.1323 (DDC)

Prd (kssb/8 (machine generated))