WORLDS OF FLOW:HYDRODYNAMICS BERNOULLIS TO PRANDTL PAPER: A history of hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl - Couverture souple

DARRIGOL, Olivier

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199559112 ISBN 13 : 9780199559114

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

The first of its kind, this book is an in-depth history of hydrodynamics from its eighteenth-century foundations 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 thorough, and sensitive to cross-cultural effects, this history should attract a broad range of historians, scientists, engineers, and philosophers and be a standard reference for anyone interested in fluid mechanics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Olivier Darrigol is Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France. His previous book, Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein (OUP 2000), won the Marc-Auguste Pictet prize of the Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve in 2000. In 2004, he was awarded the Grammaticakis-Neumann prize of the French Academy of Sciences.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199559112
• ISBN 13: 9780199559114
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 372
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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