From Euler to Navier-Stokes: a spatial analysis of conceptual changes in nineteenth-century fluid dynamics

DOI10.1080/02698595.2014.953341zbMATH Open1361.01006OpenAlexW2084767486MaRDI QIDQ2964091FDOQ2964091

Authors: Graciana Petersen, Frank Zenker 

Publication date: 23 February 2017

Published in: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02698595.2014.953341

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zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equationEuler equationfluid dynamicsphilosophy of physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of fluid mechanics (76-03)

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