Translation of Leonhard Euler's: General Principles of the Motion of Fluids

2008/02/17 by U. Frisch, frisch, Uriel
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · #Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD) #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid dynamics and aerodynamics studies #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #Mechanics and Biomechanics Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0802.2383

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Abstract

This is an adapatation by U. Frisch of an English translation by Thomas E. Burton of Euler's memoir `Principes généraux du mouvement des fluides' (Euler, 1775b). Burton's translation appeared in Fluid Dynamics, 34 (1999) pp. 801-82, Springer and is here adapted by permission. A detailed presentation of Euler's published work can be found in Truesdell, 1954. Euler's work is discussed also in the perspective of eighteenth century fluid dynamics research by Darrigol and Frisch, 2008. Explanatory footnotes have been supplied where necessary by G.K. Mikhailov and a few more by U. Frisch and O.Darrigol. Euler's memoir had neither footnotes nor a list of references.

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