Contributions of Ernst Mach to Fluid Mechanics

Reichenbach, H.

doi:10.1146/annurev.fl.15.010183.000245

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“…Blackmore, 1972, pp. 105-15;Dvorák, 1991;Reichenbach, 1983). Ludwig's role in this continuing research was to replace Peter Salcher, a professor of mechanics at the Imperial Naval Academy at Fiume (today Rijeka in Croatia).…”

Section: The Image As Display Of Datamentioning

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Superpositions: Ludwig Mach and Étienne-Jules Marey’s studies in streamline photography

Hoffmann¹

2013

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

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Section: The Image As Display Of Datamentioning

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Superpositions: Ludwig Mach and Étienne-Jules Marey’s studies in streamline photography

Hoffmann¹

2013

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

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“…‘My desire to do so was the more intense because all the means were available. I had previously used and tested them in other experiments.’ (Quoted in Reichenbach, 1983, p. 18).…”

Section: Gas Dynamicsmentioning

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Theory from Wind Tunnels: Empirical Roots of Twentieth Century Fluid Dynamics

Eckert

2008

Centaurus

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Wind tunnels became major data-gathering devices for aeronautical engineering. They were indispensible for the design of airships and airplanes (and later also for optimizing the aerodynamic behavior of cars, trains, buildings and bridges). It is not astonishing, therefore, that theoretical concepts of fluid dynamics, too, emerged in close relation to wind tunnel testing. As the scope of fluid dynamics broadened after the Second World War, its roots in aeronautical engineering became obscured. I focus on the relation of the empirical and the formal in boundary layer theory, turbulence research, and gas dynamics. It is rarely remembered that it was in the wind tunnel where the empirical roots of these fields of 20th century fluid dynamics grew in close context with problems of aeronautical engineering.

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“…The discrete two-dimensional Fourier Transform via the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm applied to equations (1) and (2) …”

Section: Phase Evaluation Processmentioning

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“…Experimental studies of fluid flows begun with Mach´s experiments series in the XIX century [1]. During 16 years he centered its research on observing shock waves previously predicted.…”

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Fourier transform evaluation and numerical modeling of fluid flow in a Laval nozzle

Rodríguez¹,

Dorrio

Doval

2008

SPIE Proceedings

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A new system for characterizing the flow delivered by a Laval nozzle in different stream configurations has been designed, developed, settled and tested. An optical module (Mach-Zehnder interferometer), an acquisition module (CMOS camera) and a processing module (Fourier Transform Phase Difference Method) have been integrated and assembled in order to obtain the instantaneous optical phase distribution along the gas flow. An additional postprocessing numerical stage provides gradient and Laplacian information of the optical phase distribution and allows a complete modeling of the fluid flow. In this work the main results, advantages and limitations of the metrological protocol related with a detailed measurement campaign are presented. Also the analysis of the obtained optical phase difference distribution is compared with results given by a tailored processing numerical stage.

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Contributions of Ernst Mach to Fluid Mechanics

Cited by 37 publications

References 1 publication

Superpositions: Ludwig Mach and Étienne-Jules Marey’s studies in streamline photography

Superpositions: Ludwig Mach and Étienne-Jules Marey’s studies in streamline photography

Theory from Wind Tunnels: Empirical Roots of Twentieth Century Fluid Dynamics

Fourier transform evaluation and numerical modeling of fluid flow in a Laval nozzle

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