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The enigma of the aerofoil : rival theories in aerodynamics, 1909-1930 /
Why do aircraft fly? How do their wings support them? In the early years of aviation, there was an intense dispute between British and German experts over the question of why and how an aircraft wing provides lift. The British, under the leadership of the great Cambridge mathematical physicist Lord...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction : The question to be answered
- 1. Mathematicians versus practical men : The founding of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
- 2. The air as an ideal fluid : Classical hydrodynamics and the foundations of aerodynamics
- 3. Early British work on lift and drag : Rayleigh flow versus the aerodynamics of intuition
- 4. Lanchester's Cyclic Theory of Lift and its early reception
- 5. Two traditions : Mathematical physics and technical mechanics
- 6. 'Technische Mechanik' in action : Kutta's arc and the Joukowsky wing
- 7. The finite wing : Ludwig Prandtl and the Göttingen school
- 8. "We have nothing to learn from the Hun" : Realization dawns
- 9. The laws of Prandtl and the laws of nature
- 10. Pessimism, positivism, and relativism : Aerodynamic knowledge in context
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.