Enigma of the Aerofoil Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930

Name: Enigma of the Aerofoil Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930
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ISBN: 9780226060958

ISBN-10: 0226060950

ISBN-13: 9780226060958

Edition: 2011

Authors: David Bloor

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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 Rayleigh, produced highly elaborate investigations of the nature of discontinuous flow, while the Germans, following Ludwig Prandtl in G ttingen, relied on the tradition called â€œtechnical mechanicsâ€ to explain the flow of air around a wing. Much of the basis of modern aerodynamics emerged from this remarkable episode, yet it has never been subject to a detailed historical and sociological…

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List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

ï¿½ David Bloor is professor emeritus in the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Knowledge and Social Imagery and coauthor of Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis, both published by the University of Chicago Press.ï¿½



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Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Question to Be Answered



Mathematicians versus Practical Men: The Founding of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics



The Air as an Ideal Fluid: Classical Hydrodynamics and the Foundations of Aerodynamics



Early British Work on Lift and Drag: Rayleigh Flow versus the Aerodynamics of Intuition



Lanchester's Cyclic Theory of Lift and Its Early Reception



Two Traditions: Mathematical Physics and Technical Mechanics



Technische Mechanik in Action: Kutta's Arc and the Joukowsky Wing



The Finite Wing: Ludwig Prandtl and the Gottingen School



"We Have Nothing to Learn from the Hun": Realization Dawns



The Laws of Prandtl and the Laws of Nature



Pessimism, Positivism, and Relativism: Aerodynamic Knowledge in Context


Notes


Bibliography


Index