Prandtl and the Göttingen school

DOI10.1017/CBO9781139018241.003zbMATH Open1303.01018arXiv1107.4729OpenAlexW1799719519MaRDI QIDQ2906550FDOQ2906550

Authors: Eberhard Bodenschatz, Michael Eckert 

Publication date: 5 September 2012

Published in: A Voyage Through Turbulence (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This is a historical review of "Prandtl and the G"ottingen School" from his first work in 1898 to after WWII. We report the development of the boundary layer theory and the investigations that lead Ludwig Prandtl in the spring of 1945 to use a energy cascade model to derive for fully developed turbulence the Kolmogrov length scale. Working at the end of WWII he was not aware of the work by Kolmogorov. Thus Ludwig Prandtl was before Onsager, von Weiz"acker, and Heisenberg in rederiving parts of K41 theory. In our historical analysis we rely heavily on exchanges between Ludwig Prandtl with Theodore von K'arm'an and Goeffrey Ingram Taylor and on the original notes by Ludwig Prandtl and others.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4729

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Turbulence (76F99) Schools of mathematics (01A72) History of fluid mechanics (76-03)

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