Article ID: CBB000770912

Problems of Method in Levi-Civita's Contributions to Hydrodynamics (2006)

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Levi-Civita made important contributions to hydrodynamics: he solved D'Alembert's paradox, introduced the ``wake hypothesis'', deduced the general integral of any plane motion involving a wake, and gave a rigorous proof of the existence of the irrotational wave in a canal of finite depth. In this paper, we investigate Levi-Civita's results in this area, and connect them to the methods of the new theory of integral equations. Finally, we give some information on Levi-Civita's students. In our paper, we often use letters written by and addressed to Levi-Civita.

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Authors & Contributors
Eckert, Michael
Darrigol, Olivier
Ernst, Landgrave of Hessen-Rheinfels
Lugaresi, Maria Giulia
Giuseppe Iurato
Snobelen, Stephen
Concepts
Physics
Mathematics
Hydrodynamics
Correspondence and corresponding
Empiricism
Mechanics
Time Periods
20th century, early
18th century
19th century
20th century
Republic of Venice (697–1797)
17th century
Places
Germany
Sweden
Italy
France
Canada
Great Britain
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten
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