Together with Hermann Glauert, this scientist gives his name to a singularity and a compressibility correction formula which applies to certain types of flow.
Together with Hermann Glauert, this scientist gives his name to a singularity and a compressibility correction formula which applies to certain types of flow. He postulated an expansion fan which can be imagined as a continuous sequence of infinitesimal Mach expansion waves with Theodor Meyer. He also has a namesake "mixing length theory" which results in the Kolmogorov spectrum and a "lifting line theory" postulated concurrently with Frederick Lanchester. His ►namesake number is the ratio of kinematic viscosity to thermal diffusivity and is used to characterize a system's convection. FTP, name this German father of aerodynamic theory.
Together with Hermann Glauert, this scientist gives his name to a singularity and a compressibility correction formula which applies to certain types of flow.
Ludwig Prandtl  