Ludwig Prandtl, with his fundamental contributions to hydrodynamics, aerodynamics, and gasdynamics, greatly influenced the development of fluid echanics as a whole, and it was his pioneering research in the first half of the twentieth century that founded modern fluid mechanics. His book Fuhrer durch die Stromunglehre or Essentials of Fluid mechanics appeared in 1942. Even today, it is considered one of the most important books on this topic. For this second ...
