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dc.relation.isnodouble6abcda15-d52c-4d70-8ef5-b5efd2c71d50*
dc.contributor.authorVogel-Prandtl, Johanna
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-15T02:41:15Z
dc.date.available2020-04-15T02:41:15Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37085
dc.description.abstractWhen Ludwig Prandtl took up the Chair of Applied Mechanics at Göttingen University in 1904, the small university town became the cradle of modern fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. Not only did Prandtl found two research institutions of worldwide renown, the Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt (AVA) and the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Strömungsforschung, but with the so-called ‘Göttingen School’ he also established an exceptionally fertile line of scientific thinking, unique for its special balance of intuition for physics and mathematical precision. The scientific methods developed by Prandtl and his pupils are manifested in numerous dissertations, monographs and textbooks that now rate as classics and hence belong to the fundamental works on fluid mechanics. Yet many of these publications have long been out of print and inaccessible for study. The series Göttinger Klassiker der Strömungsmechanik is thus making available selected publications that emerged from Ludwig Prandtl’s ‘Göttingen School’ or stand in a particular historical relationship to it. This highly personal biography of Ludwig Prandtl compiled by his daughter, Johanna Vogel-Prandtl, is complemented by numerous photographs depicting Prandtl’s working and private life. It completes the picture of the founding father of modern fluid mechanics whose scientific importance continues to resonate to this day.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physicsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TG Mechanical engineering and materials::TGM Materials science::TGMF Engineering: Mechanics of fluids::TGMF1 Aerodynamicsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general::DNBT Biography: science, technology and medicineen_US
dc.subject.othermechanics
dc.subject.otheraerodynamics
dc.subject.otherpersonal biography
dc.titleLudwig Prandtl
dc.title.alternativeA personal biography drawn from memories and correspondence
dc.typebook
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.17875/gup2014-769
oapen.relation.isPublishedByffaff15c-73ed-45cd-8be1-56a881b51f62


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