The enigma of the aerofoil
Subtitle: rival theories in aerodynamics, 1909-1930
By: David Bloor
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780226060941; 9780226060958
Subjects: Aerodynamics; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mathematicians versus practical men: the founding of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; title: The air as an ideal fluid: classical hydrodynamics and the foundations of aerodynamics; title: Early British work on lift and drag: Rayleigh flow versus the aerodynamics of intuition; title: Lanchester's cyclic theory of lift and its early reception; title: Two traditions: mathematical physics and technical mechanics; title: Technische Mechanik in action: Kutta's arc and the Joukowsky wing; title: The finite wing: Ludwig Prandtl and the Göttingen school; title: '"We have nothing to learn from the Hun": realization dawns; title: The laws of Prandtl and the laws of nature; title: Pessimism, positivism, and relativism: aerodynamic knowledge in context.