| Description |
xvi, 270 pages : illustrations |
| Series |
Engineering societies monographs |
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Engineering societies monographs.
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| Contents |
Equilibrium and stability -- Application of the pressure equation to permanent gases.Stability of air masses -- Static lift on gas-filled aircraft -- Surface tension -- Methods of description -- Geometry of the vector field -- Acceleration of a fluid particle -- Equation of continuity -- The Eulerian equation and its integration along a streamline -- Potential motion -- Two-dimensional potential motion -- Vortex motion -- The influence of conpressibility -- Theories of energy and momentum -- The equation of Navier-Stokes for viscous fluids |
| Notes |
Corresponds to the first vol. of the German ed. published under title: Hydro- und Aeromechanik |
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Includes index |
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This new Dover ed. is an unabridged and unaltered reproduction of a 1934 ed |
| Subject |
Aerodynamics.
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Fluid mechanics.
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Hydraulics.
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Hydrodynamics.
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| Author |
Prandtl, Ludwig, 1875-1953.
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| LC no. |
57004859 |
| ISBN |
0486603741 |
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