Overview
- Examines the evolution and history of turbulence as a transdisciplinary research field
- Traces the emergence of a diversity of relevant research questions
- Describes the birth and development of a new scientific community
Part of the book series: History of Physics (HIPHY)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Roots
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Staging Turbulence
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Back Matter
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About this book
Turbulence is a research field where high expectations have met with recurrent frustration. It is a common perception among physicists, mathematicians and engineers that there is a "big mystery" behind the phenomenon of turbulence. Its history has also remained anything but well researched. Unlike topics such as quantum theory, which began to attract physics historians as long as fifty years ago, turbulence has - until now - received only little professional historical investigation.
In this book, which complements his earlier SpringerBrief "The Turbulence Problem", the author sketches the history of turbulence from the vantage point of its roots (Part I), the basic concepts (Part II) and the formation of a scientific community that regarded turbulence as a research field in its own right (Part III). From this perspective turbulence research appears to undertake an odyssey through uncharted territories. The book follows this development up until a conference in Marseille in theyear 1961, which marked the inauguration of turbulence in the words of its organizer as “a new science”. The epilogue contains some observations about turbulence research since 1961. This book provides a rich source of information for all those interested in the history of this major field of basic and applied science.Reviews
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Michael Eckert, born 1949, studied physics at the Technical University in Munich with a diploma in 1976. He received a doctorate in theoretical physics at the University in Bayreuth in 1979. From 1989-1995 he was editor for physics, mathematics and informatics at the Bayerischer Schulbuchverlag. Most of his career, however, was spent at the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum as a historian of physics. Since his retirement in 2014, he has remained associated with this institute as Senior Researcher.
Eckert's major research projects covered the history of solid state physics, an edition of the scientific correspondence of Arnold Sommerfeld, the history of fluid dynamics, and biographies of Arnold Sommerfeld and Ludwig Prandtl. He has published several books in German and English.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Turbulence—an Odyssey
Book Subtitle: Origins and Evolution of a Research Field at the Interface of Science and Engineering
Authors: Michael Eckert
Series Title: History of Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91459-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91458-5Published: 02 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91461-5Published: 03 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-91459-2Published: 01 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2730-7549
Series E-ISSN: 2730-7557
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 208
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Materials Science, general, Engineering Fluid Dynamics, History of Science