Ludwig Prandtl
Ludwig Prandtl
Ludwig Prandtl
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a German physicist and aerospace scientist. He was a pioneer in the development of systematic analyses which he used for underlying the science of aerodynamics
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Born
4 February 1875 Freising, Upper Bavaria, German Empire
Died
15 August 1953 (aged 78) Göttingen, West Germany
Nationality
German
Known for
Boundary layer Mixing length theory Lifting-line theory Membrane analogy Prandtl condition Prandtl number Prandtl–Meyer expansion fan Prandtl–Meyer function Prandtl–Batchelor theorem Prandtl–Glauert transformation
Fields
Aerodynamics
Alma mater
Technical University of Munich, RWTH Aachen
Awards
Ackermann–Teubner Memorial Award (1918) Daniel Guggenheim Medal (1930) Wilhelm Exner Medal 1951
Institutions
University of Göttingen, Technical University of Hannover
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Germany
Doctoral advisor
August Föppl
Doctoral students
Ackeret, Blasius, Busemann, Munk, Nikuradse, Pohlhausen, Schlichting, Tietjens, Tollmien, von Kármán, Timoshenko, Vâlcovici, Vishnu Madav Ghatage and many others (85 in total).
era
1800+
Thesis
Tilting Phenomena, A case of unstable elastic balance (1899)