Shape and flow : the fluid dynamics of drag

200 Pages·1961·4.695 MB·English

by  Shapiro, Ascher H

Ascher H.Shapiro
Shape and Flow
The Fluid Dynamics of Drag
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Shape and Flow
THE AUTHOR
Educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Techno¬
logy (B.S. 1938, Sc.D. 1946), Ascher H. Shapiro has
been teaching at M.I.T. since 1938 and now is Pro¬
fessor of Mechanical Engineering.
Dr. Shapiro’s speciality was thermodynamics but,
with the advent of really high-speed and jet propul¬
sion in World War II, he devoted increasing atten¬
tion to the problems of high-speed gas dynamics.
Today he is concerned with all the realms of fluid
dynamics, a subject which he believes “wiU never be
exhausted, it enters into every aspect of life and
technology, and it is forever full of surprise.”
For his work as director of a laboratory for the
development of torpedo engines in World War II,
Dr. Shapiro received the Naval Ordnance Develop¬
ment Award and a certificate of outstanding contri¬
bution from the Departments of War and Navy. A
past member of several technical subcommittees of
the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics,
Professor Shapiro has been a consultant to the
Atomic Energy Commission and on the Technical
Advisory Panel on Aeronautics of the Secretary of
Defense. As director of Project Dynamo, he evalu¬
ated for the AEC certain economic and technical
aspects of nuclear power for civilian use.
Dr. Shapiro is a Fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, and a member of Sigma Xi,
Tau Beta Pi, and Pi Tau Sigma. In 1960 he was the
recipient of the Richards Memorial Award of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers “for out¬
standing achievement in engineering.”
Author of The Dynamics and Thermodynamics of
Compressible Fluid Flow, Professor Shapiro frequently
contributes to professional journals. Most recently,
he has been interested in teaching engineering with
the aid of motion pictures. This has resulted in what
Dr. Shapiro hopes will be the first of many films,
The Fluid Dynamics of Drag, the source of this book.
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