Ludwig Prandtl’s Boundary Layer Theory

Robert E. O’Malley
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Robert E. O’Malley: University of Washington, Department of Applied Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 1 in Historical Developments in Singular Perturbations, 2014, pp 1-26 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Boundary layer theory formally boundary layer theory came into existence in Heidelberg, Germany at 11:30 am on August 12, 1904 when Ludwig Prandtl Prandtl, L. (1875–1953), a professor (and chair) of mechanics at the Technical University of Hanover (the youngest professor in Prussia according to Bodenschatz and Eckert [49]), gave a ten-minute talk Prandtl, L. ICM talk to the Third International Congress of Mathematicians entitled “Über Flüssigkeitsbewegung bei sehr kleiner Reibung” (On Fluid Motion with Small Friction). (Figs. 1.1 and 1.2).

Keywords: Boundary Layer; Nobel Prize; Singular Perturbation; Boundary Layer Theory; Rockefeller Foundation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11924-3_1

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