Bungo77 edit

Bungo77 is interested in Wikipedia content relating to applied mathematics, fluid dynamics, outer space, space exploration and other things. (S)he lives in Germany and has no cats. (S)he has no time for any of this.

History of Fluid Mechanics edit

Antiquity: civil engineering. Naval architecture - parallel to FM-proper. Dark/Middle ages? China? Arab? Newton, 17th-18th centuries - foundations of continuum mechanics. 19th - further progress. Turbulence unknown. 20th century: first ship building, then aerodynamics. WWI-WWII period. Post WWII: large institutes. Supersonics, mathematical turbulence. Massive simulations: CFD, Geophysical FD, DNS, LES. MHD. Current: nanoscale, rheology.

 
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