.... At present, both Newton’s temperature scale and Kelvin’s first scale are of historical interest only. convection cooling fluid dynamics heat conduction heat radiation history thermodynamics I offer this work as the mathematical principles of philosophy, … —from the phenomena of motions...

...Albert CJ Luo This article reviews the history and recent development of the nonlinear dynamics theory of the stochastic layer in nonlinear Hamiltonian systems. The exponentially small splitting of separatrix, standard and whisker map approaches, Chirikov overlap criterion, renormalization group...

...Reint de Boer porous materials flow through porous media history entropy kinematics Reint de Boer was born in Upgant (Norden), Germany in 1935 and went through primary and secondary schools there. He studied civil engineering at the Technische Hochschule Hannover (1957–1962...

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..., as well as his early contributions to biomechanics. A unique aspect of this review has been the use of Reuleaux’s kinematic models at Cornell University and in the Deutsches Museum, in Munich, as a tool to rediscover lost engineering and kinematic knowledge of 19th century history of machines. This review...

.... liquids fluid dynamics space vehicle power plants history reviews Norm’s accomplishments have led to many honors, including the ASME Medal, ASME Centennial Silver Medal, first recipient of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division Award, ASME Honorary Membership, American Academy of Mechanics Medal...

... or plane stress, or creeping flow of a viscous incompressible fluid. The object of this paper is both to elucidate some interesting points related to the history of the problem and to give an overview of some analytical approaches to its solution. This review article contains 758 references...

...Bernard Crossland,, Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering 30 07 2002 mechanical engineering biographies history Sir Bernard Crossland Bernard Crossland was born in Sydenham, South London in 1923. On leaving grammar school, aged 16, he was apprenticed to Rolls Royce...

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...R de Boer,, Author; N Katsube,, Reviewer 03 04 2002 porous materials history reviews 3R29. Theory of Porous Media: Highlights in Historical Development and Current State. - R de Boer (Inst fur Mechanik, Univ Essen, Fachbereich 10 Bauwesen, Essen, D-45117, Germany...

...), and a concise version of it in a chapter of a book (CISM Courses and Lectures No. 238, 1978). Here, I can only make a note of a few interesting aspects of this linear experience. dynamics mechanical stability bifurcation buckling history Koncay Huseyin Koncay Huseyin was born...

...R Byron Bird transport processes history biographies R Byron Bird R. Byron Bird (known as “Bob” to his friends) is well known for his pioneering research in non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, especially as it relates to polymers, as well as macromolecular kinetic theory...

...Frithiof I Niordson engineering computing history biographies Frithiof I Niordson Frithiof Niordson was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1922 of Swedish-Russian parentage. Most of his formative years were spent in Sweden, and he...

... equations history biographies I apologize sincerely for using the title of the book I coauthored with R Schinzinger (Elsevier, 1991) for this section of my Retrospective, but it summarizes my modest work on the subject during 40 years. The method of conformal mapping has been used for almost...

... and uniqueness of solutions of the fluid flows problems concludes this paper. At the end, after some concluding remarks, there are 306 references. fluid dynamics Navier-Stokes equations Boltzmann equation kinetic theory boundary-value problems partial differential equations history reviews e...