Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

The Scientific Papers of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

Herausgeber: Batchelor, G. K.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this third volume, Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor's papers examine aerodynamics and the mechanics of projectiles and explosions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 590
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1004g
• ISBN-13: 9780521159043
• ISBN-10: 0521159040
• Artikelnr.: 31970746

Inhaltsangabe

1. The conditions necessary for discontinuous motion in gases
2. The use of fin surface to stabilize a weight towed from an aeroplane
3. Pressure distribution round a cylinder
4. Pressure distribution over the wing of an aeroplane in flight
5. On the shapes of parachutes
6. Scientific methods in aeronautics
7. The 'rotational inflow factor' in propeller theory
8. Notes on Mr Glauert's paper, 'An Aerodynamic Theory of the Airscrew'
9. The singing of wires in a wind
10. Note on the connection between the lift on an aerofoil in a wind and the circulation round it
11. A manometer for use with small pitot tubes
12. The energy of a body moving in an infinite fluid, with an application to airships
13. The forces on a body placed in a curved or converging stream of fluid
14. A mechanical method for solving problems of flow in compressible fluids
15. The flow of air at high speeds past curved surfaces
16. Some cases of flow of compressible fluids
17. Recent work on the flow of compressible fluids
18. Application to aeronautics of Ackeret's theory of aerofoils moving at speeds greater than that of sound
19. The air pressure on a cone moving at high speeds, I
20. The air pressure on a cone moving at high speeds, II
21. The determination of drag by the pitot traverse method
22. Determination of the pressure inside a hollow body in which there are a number of holes communicating with variable pressures outside
23. The propagation and decay of blast waves
24. Notes on possible equipment and technique for experiments on icing on aircraft
25. Generation of ripples by wind blowing over a viscous fluid
26. Notes on the dynamics of shock-waves from bare explosive charges
27. Pressures on solid bodies near an explosion
28. The stagnation temperature in a wake
29. The propagation of blast waves over the ground
30. Analysis of the explosion of a long cylindrical bomb detonated at one end
31. The pressures and impulses of submarine explosion waves on plates
32. The dispersion of jets of metals of low melting point in water
33. The motion of a body in water when subjected to a sudden impulse
34. Note on the lateral expansion behind a detonation wave
35. The effect of the method of support in tests of damage to thin-walled structures by underwater explosions
36. The vertical motion of a spherical bubble and the pressure and the pressure surrounding it
37. The motion and shape of the hollow produced by an explosion in a liquid
38. Experiments with 1/76-scale model of explosions near ¿-scale asset target
39. A formulation of Mr Tuck's conception of Munroe jets
40. Blast impulse and fragment velocities from cased charges
41. Note on the limiting ranges of large rockets
42. The bursting of cylindrical cased charges
43. Air resistance of a flat plate of very porous material
44. The fragmentation of tubular bombs
45. The aerodynamics of porous sheets
46. Pitot pressure in moist air
47. The air wave surrounding an expanding sphere
48. The mechanics of swirl atomisers
49. The effect of wire gauze on small disturbances in a uniform stream
50. The shape and acceleration of a drop in a high-speed air stream
51. The dynamics of the combustion products behind planes and spherical detonation fronts in explosives
52. The mechanics of large bubbles rising through extended liquids and through liquids in tubes
53. The formation of a blast wave from a very intense explosion, I: theoretical discussion
54. The formation of a blast wave from a very intense explosion, II: the atomic explosion of 1945
55. The boundary layer in the converging nozzle of a swirl atomiser
56. The instability of liquid surfaces when accelerated in a direction perpendicular to their planes, I
57. The use of a vertical air jet as a windscreen
58. Effects of compressibility at low Reynolds number.