SpringerBriefs in history of science and technology,
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2211-4564
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Intro; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; 1 Hydrodynamics Versus Hydraulics; 1.1 When and How Turbulence Became a Problem; 1.2 Felix Klein's Efforts to Bridge the Gulf Between Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics; 1.3 The Turbulence Problem in the Early Sommerfeld School; 1.4 Hydraulics and Turbulence; 1.5 Turbulence in the Wake of Spheres and Struts; 2 The Turbulence Problem in the 1920s; 2.1 The Turbulence Problem in ZAMM; 2.2 A New International Forum for Applied Mechanics; 2.3 The ``Great Problem of Developed Turbulence''; 2.4 Tollmien's Solution of the ``Stability Problem''
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2.5 The Quest for a Universal Law of Turbulence3 The Rise of Statistical Theories of Turbulence; 3.1 Atmospheric Turbulence; 3.2 Wind Tunnel Turbulence; 3.3 Taylor's and Kármán's Statistical Theories; 3.4 A Symposium on Turbulence; 3.5 ``Burgulence''; 4 Turbulence in WW II; 4.1 Kolmogorov's Statistical Theory; 4.2 Laminar Wings; 4.3 Turbulence Problems in Miscellaneous War Applications; 4.4 Fundamental Wartime Research on Turbulence; 5 Expectations and Hopes: 1945-1961; 5.1 A ``Remarkable Series of Coincidences''; 5.2 The Turbulence Problem Ca. 1950
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5.3 Turbulence as a Challenge for American Physics5.4 The First Textbooks on Turbulence; 5.5 Marseille 1961; 6 Computational Approaches; 6.1 John von Neumann and the Electronic Computer Project; 6.2 Early Numerical Solutions of the Stability Problem; 6.3 The Origins of Large-Eddy Simulation; 6.4 The Closure Problem; 6.5 Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS); 7 Chaos and Turbulence; 7.1 Strange Attractors; 7.2 Precision Experiments; 7.3 Fractals; 7.4 Coherent Structures; 7.5 ``Whither Turbulence''; 8 Turbulence as a Challenge for the Historian; References; ; Index
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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On the road toward a history of turbulence, this book focuses on what the actors in this research field have identified as the "turbulence problem". Turbulent flow rose to prominence as one of the most persistent challenges in science. At different times and in different social and disciplinary settings, the nature of this problem has changed in response to changing research agendas. This book does not seek to provide a comprehensive account, but instead an exemplary exposition on the environments in which problems become the subjects of research agendas, with particular emphasis on the first half of the 20th century.