The history of Fluid Mechanics Report

Benha University

Mechanical Department

Power Branch

The history of

Fluid Mechanics

Report

The history of fluid mechanics, the study of how fluids move and the forces on them, dates back to the Ancient Greeks.

Submitted to

Prof. Dr. Osama Ezzat Abdel-Latif

 

By

Abd Al-hady Moustafa Abd Al-halem Abo-zeid Habib

3^rd Year of Mechanical power branch (Mech. dep.)

2^nd Group

Section: 6

Bn#133

Contents

• 1 Ancient and medieval era
• 1.1 Archimedes
• 1.2 The Alexandrian school
• 1.3 Sextus Julius Frontinus
• 2 Sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century
• 2.1 Castelli and Torricelli
• 2.2 Blaise Pascal
• 2.3 Mariotte and Guglielmini
• 2.4 Studies by Isaac Newton
• 2.4.1 Friction and viscosity
• 2.4.2 Orifices
• 2.4.3 Waves
• 2.5 Daniel Bernoulli
• 2.6 Jean le Rond d'Alembert
• 2.7 Leonhard Euler
• 2.8 Pierre Louis Georges Dubuat
• 3 Nineteenth century
• 3.1 Gaspard Riche de Prony
• 3.2 Johann Albert Eytelwein
• 3.3 Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette and others
• 3.4 Andreas Rudolf Harlacher and others
• 4 References

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