Ludwig Prandtl, who is considered to be the father of modern aerodynamics, made a number of films for demonstration and illustration purposes in the 1920s and 1930s, while he was at the Kaiser Wilhelm ...

NASA has teamed up with community college students to create a small, unmanned and engine-free glider that may one day become the first airplane to soar through the Martian atmosphere. The Preliminary ...

PITTSBURGH (April 11, 2019) ... In 1942, Ludwig Prandtl--considered the father of modern aerodynamics--published "Führer durch die Strömungslehre," the first book of its time on fluid mechanics and ...

In August 1904 Ludwig Prandtl, a 29-year old professor of mechanics at the Technical University of Hanover, presented a remarkable paper at the Third International Mathematical Congress in Heidelberg.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The radio-controlled (r/c) flying ...

On 19 November 1924, a ship slowly manoeuvred through the Port of Kiel. On board were Ludwig Prandtl and Albert Betz from the Aerodynamic Research Institute (AVA) in Göttingen – a predecessor of today ...

NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center engineers located in Edwards, California, are working on an increasingly complex aircraft called the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Lower Drag, or ...

The Daniel Guggenheim gold medal for notable aeronautical achievement: to Dr. Ludwig Prandtl of the University of Göttingen, Germany. He was largely instrumental in the development of the Göttingen ...

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has commissioned the Hitzler shipyard in Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein to construct a new research vessel. The LUDWIG PRANDTL II - as it is tentatively named - will cost ...

Researchers used both linear stability theory and direct numerical simulations to uncover, for the first time, fluid instabilities in the Prandtl model for katabatic slope flows. Not only will this ...