Preface
Basic definitions
Fluids and life
Water and air
The first uses of fluids
Mythology and fluids
Plato and fluids
Aristotle and the science of fluids
The birth of fluidstatics
Hero of Alexandria
Through the Dark Ages to the Renaissance
General remarks about Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci's original works on fluids
Leonardo's fluidmechanics
Simon Stevin
Galileo Galilei
Evangelista Torricelli and Otto von Guericke
Blaise Pascal
Sir Isaac Newton
Daniel Bernoulli
Leonhard Euler
Louis de Lagrange
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Chevalier de Borda and others
"Chezy, Du Buat, Coulon, Hagen, Poiseuille and Girard"
Claude Louis M. H. Navier
The birth of experimental fluidmechanics
Benjamin Robins and Leonhard Euler
"Lazare Carnot, Pierre Simon de Laplace and others"
Augustin Louis Cauchy and others
Hermann von Helmholtz and others
Osborne Reynolds
Mikhail Lomonossov and others
The Russian School of scientific thought
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovsky
Frederick Lanchester and others
The Prandtl-Lanchester Lifting Line Theory
Flettner's rudders
Flettner's rotorship
Flettner's rotor windmill
Autorotating bodies
"Riabouchinsky, Mallock, Benard, von Karman"
William Froude and others
Turbulent boundary layer and flow separation
Methods of delaying flow separation
Airscrews
The inner structure of fluids
The velocity of sound
Ernest Mach and others
The Chaplygin-Khristianovich method
The drag wall
Transsonic compressibility effects on lift
Further notes on transsonic and aerodynamics
Further notes on supersonic fluidmechanics: superfluidity
Hypersonic gasdynamics
The universal matter-energy continuity
Index

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