Contents
xiii
7.14 Supersonic Aircraft
548
7.15 Drag Reduction Technology for Large Transport
Aircraft
555
8 Introduction to Celebrities in Fluid Mechanics
581
8.1
Archimedes (287–212 B.C.)
581
8.2
Leonardo Da Vinci (1451–1519)
582
8.3
Galileo (1564–1642)
583
8.4
Pascal (1623–1662)
585
8.5 Newton (1643–1727)
586
8.6 Leibniz (1646–1716)
587
8.7
Bernoulli (1700–1782)
588
8.8
Euler (1707–1783)
589
8.9
D’Alembert (1717–1783)
590
8.10 Lagrange (1736–1813)
591
8.11 Laplace (1749–1827)
592
8.12 Kelly (1773–1857)
593
8.13 Gauss (1777–1855)
594
8.14 Poisson (1781–1840)
596
8.15 Navier (1785–1836)
597
8.16 Cauchy (1789–1857)
598
8.17 Saint-Venant (1797–1886)
600
8.18 Poiseuille (1799–1869)
601
8.19 Darcy (1803–1858)
602
8.20 Froude (1810–1879)
603
8.21 Stokes (1819–1903)
604
8.22 Helmholtz (1821–1894)
604
8.23 Kelvin (1824–1907)
606
8.24 Riemann (1826–1866)
607
8.25 Langley (1834–1906)
609
8.26 Mach (1838–1916)
610
8.27 Reynolds (1842–1912)
611
8.28 Rayleigh (1842–1919)
612
8.29 Boussinesq (1842–1929)
613
8.30 Laval (1845–1913)
614
8.31 Joukowski (1847–1921)
615
8.32 Lilienthal (1848–1996)
616
8.33 Lamb (1849–1934)
617
8.34 Lorentz (1853–1928)
618
8.35 The Wright Brothers (1867–1912, 1871–1948)
620
8.36 Lanchester (1868–1946)
621