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A Kind of Boundary-Layer 'Flutter': The Turbulent History of a Fluid Mechanical Instability
Michael Eckert
The transition from laminar to turbulent flow has been a notorious riddle in fluid dynamics since the nineteenth century. Hydrodynamic instabilities were regarded as a cause for th…
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Prandtl and the Göttingen School
Eberhard Bodenschatz, Michael Eckert
This is a historical review of "Prandtl and the Göttingen School" from his first work in 1898 to after WWII. We report the development of the boundary layer theory and the investig…