TY - JOUR
TI - DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL METHODS OF HYDRODYNAMICS IN THE 20th CENTURY
AU - Oka Simeon
AU - Melling Dubravka
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2001
VL - 5
IS - 1
SP - 5
EP - 31
PT - Article
AB - The development of fluid mechanics is briefly reviewed and the : importance of fluid flows to heat and mass transport in nature as well us in science and engineering is outlined. The early theoretical developments are explained and it is indicated that the basic equations were available at the end of the 18th century. Methods to solve. these equations for engineering flows were not, however, developed until the second half of the 20th century. This was an important period for fluid flow research during which all the experimental fluid mechanics methods, particularly the optical methods, available today were also developed. The same is true for all the numerical methods that are used very successfully nowadays to solve scientific and engineering fluid flow problems. Prof. Durst and his research groups, first at the University of Karslruhe and later at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, have contributed extensively to these developments. The present issue of the Journal of Thermal Science embraces publications of the heads of the research sections of his institute in Erlangen, Germany which document these contributions and is dedicated to the 60th birthday of Prof. Durst.