boundary layer flow
41A. M. O. Smith — Apollo Milton Olin Smith (usually referred to as A.M.O. Smith) (July 2, 1911 – February 2, 1997) was an important figure in the aerodynamics field at Douglas Aircraft from 1938 to 1975 and an early pioneer in the area of Computational Fluid… …
42Peter Masak — Infobox Scientist name = Peter C. Masak image width = 350px caption = Peter Masak ridge soaring his Scimitar glider on Bald Eagle Mountain near Lock Haven, Pennsylvania birth date = birth date|1957|8|17|mf=y birth place = Canada death date =… …
43Hugh Latimer Dryden — Hugh Dryden Hugh Dryden Born July 2, 1898 Pocomoke City, Maryland …
44ROTT — HUNGARY (see also List of Individuals) 6.10.1917 Budapest/H 10.8.2006 Palo Alto CA/USA Miklós (Nicholas) Rott graduated as a mechanical engineer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH in 1940 and gained there his PhD in 1943. He… …
45Gurney flap — The Gurney Flap (or wickerbill) is a small flat tab projecting from the trailing edge of a wing. Typically it is set at a right angle to the pressure side surface of the airfoil,cite journal author = Van Dam, C.P. coauthors = Yen, D.T.; Vijgen, P …
46Von Kármán constant — A unitless constant describing the logarithmic velocity profile of a turbulent fluid near a no slip boundary. The equation for such boundary layer flow profiles is:u=frac{u {star{k}lnfrac{z}{z 0}where u is the velocity at height z above the… …
47LACHMANN — GERMANY (see also List of Individuals) 3.2.1896 Dresden/D 30.5.1966 Chorley Wood/UK Gustav Viktor Lachmann was injured due to spinning during a flight mission in World War I. In 1918 he patented the column wing as a means to control spinning and… …
48Hugh L. Dryden — Dr Hugh Dryden Dr Hugh Dryden Naissance 2 juillet 1898 Pocomoke City (Maryland)  …
49Time-of-flight — The time of flight (TOF) describes the method used to measure the time that it takes for a particle, object or stream to reach a detector while traveling over a known distance. In time of flight mass spectrometry, ions are accelerated by an… …
50EICHELBRENNER — GERMANY (see also List of Individuals) 28.6.1913 Rüstringen/D 1.7.1974 Paris/F Ernst Eichelbrenner graduated as a mathematician from Hamburg University in 1943 and earned the PhD title from Sorbonne, Paris in 1955. He was a scientific… …
