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Turbulence Research in the 1920s and 1930s between Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering (2018)

Science in Context
Volume: 31
Issue: 3
Pages: 381-404

URI: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/science-in-context/article/turbulence-research-in-the-1920s-and-1930s-between-mathematics-physics-and-engineering/3C50916CA865D0F67BB111FBC6F95D07

DOI: 10.1017/S026988971800025X

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Hydraulic engineering Engineering, naval Aeronautics; aviation Engineering Physics Mathematics 20th century, early Germany Prandtl, Ludwig

During the interwar period research on turbulence met with interest from different areas: in aeronautical engineering turbulence became a subject of experimental study in wind tunnels; in naval architecture and hydraulic engineering turbulence research was on the agenda because of its role for skin friction; applied mathematicians and theoretical physicists struggled with the problem to determine the onset of turbulence from the fundamental hydrodynamic equations; experimental physicists developed techniques to measure the velocity fluctuations of turbulent flows. In this paper I describe the rise of turbulence in the 1920s and 1930s as a research field under the label of applied mechanics. Although the focus is on Germany, the international development of this research field is illuminated by the role which Ludwig Prandtl played as its acknowledged “chief” (G. I. Taylor). I argue that the multifaceted character of this research field calls for an epistemology and historiography which intrinsically takes the interaction of science and engineering into account.

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