| Jean Le Rond d'Alembert: A New Theory of the Resistance of Fluids 2018 Edition Contributor(s): Calero, Julian Simon (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319679996 ISBN-13: 9783319679990 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | History - Science | Physics - General - Science | Mechanics - Fluids |
| Dewey: 509 |
| Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.33 lbs) 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the commentaries to this book we try to understand d'Alembert thoughts and how he contrives to translate his ideas on mechanics to the fluid realm with a new and radical point of view; how he arrives at the first two fundamental differential equations among the velocity components; and how he tries to reduce the resistance of a moving body, which is a change of its momentum, to the hydrostatical pressure, which is related to the gravity. All this knowing that his mechanics has no forces and no pressures as well, and that the fluids are aggregates of individual particles. The essay A New Theory of the Resistance of Fluids was a turning point in Fluid Mechanics because clearly, for the first time, the resistance is shown as the results of a fluid subjected to differential equations in a continuous mode instead of a set of impacts of individual particles. This contribution has been recognized by the scholars. However, only partial attention has been p aid to this work, which can be justified due to the difficulty in its reading and also because it was eclipsed by the publication, a few years later, of Euler's three Memoirs that established modern hydrodynamics.
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