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The Development of Fluid Mechanics from Archimedes to Stokes and Reynolds

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The History of Theoretical, Material and Computational Mechanics - Mathematics Meets Mechanics and Engineering

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics ((LAMM,volume 1))

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Short presentation of the fundamentals and the development of fluid mechanics from ancient times until the end of 19th century.

Dedicated to Heinz Ismar, Saarbrücken, for his remarkable contributions to material physics and engineering application on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

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  1. Institute of Mechanics and Ocean Engineering, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, 21071, Hamburg, Germany

    Oskar Mahrenholtz

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  1. Institute of Mechanics and Computational Mechanics (IBNM), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Erwin Stein

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Mahrenholtz, O. (2014). The Development of Fluid Mechanics from Archimedes to Stokes and Reynolds. In: Stein, E. (eds) The History of Theoretical, Material and Computational Mechanics - Mathematics Meets Mechanics and Engineering. Lecture Notes in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39905-3_17

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