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

DOI10.1080/02698595.2014.953341MaRDI QIDQ2964091zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

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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