Titlebook: Ludwig Prandtl; A Life for Fluid Mec Michael Eckert Book 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 Prandtl Biography.History of fluid dynami

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Childhood, Youth and University Studies,ral Central School, Weihenstephan). Following his school education in Freising (Lateinschule) and Munich (Ludwigsgymnasium), Prandtl studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University Munich. He became an assistant to August Föppl and, in 1900, received a doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilian

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,A New Start in Göttingen,nge took up an appointment in Göttingen in the same year. Runge and Prandtl directed the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, which was founded in 1905. From 1907, Prandtl was also appointed to research into aerodynamics for airship technology, which was carried out in a small airship mod

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The First World War,arts of aircraft. In 1915, he received funds from the War Ministry for the construction of a large research centre which had little to do with airships and, after the war, was renamed the Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt (AVA) (Aerodynamics Research Institute). With the war contracts, Prandtl’s know-h

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A New Mission in Life,a result of the Treaty of Versailles, the manufacture of military aircraft was banned in Germany. This meant that contracts for the Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt also did not come, threatening continuation of the work there. But, gliding and other civil applications of aerodynamics offered a way ou

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Experts,ver the “Wilbur Wright Lecture”. In the USA, the Göttingen research results were translated by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and then made accessible to aeronautics engineers as NACA reports. In the 1920s, Prandtl and his students became internationally acclaimed experts in

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The Final Years,half of the US Army. The British Military Government ordered the dismantling of the Aerodynamic Research Institute, but allowed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute to continue under the directorship of Albert Betz. In the last years of his life, Prandtl concentrated on carrying out meteorological flow rese

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,Prandtl’s Legacy,ngen design” and many more. With the “Ludwig Prandtl Memorial Lecture” and a “Ludwig Prandtl Ring”, still, half a century after Prandtl’s death, researchers who have made an outstanding contribution to the field of research founded by him are honoured. Numerous researchers in engineering feel commit