Author: Burgers, J.M. [Nieuwstadt, F.T.M & Stekete, J.A.: editors]
Title: Selected Papers of J.M. Burgers
Description: Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, (1995). org. boards. 24x16cm, (109),650 pp, Some slight page-edge soil.. Textual tables.. Minor rubbing. Name inked on front endpaper. VG. ¶ Contents: Biography; Bibliography: Selected papers: 'On the resistance experienced by a fluid in turbulent motion'; 'Preliminary measurements of the distribution of the velocity of a fluid in the immediate neighbourhood of a plane, smoothe surface'; 'On Oseen's theory for the approximate determination of the flow of a fluid with very small friction along a body'; 'On the application of Oseen's hydrodynamical equations to the problem of the slipstream from an ideal propeller'; 'On the application of statistical mechanics to the theory of turbulent fluid motion. I, II, III; 'On the application of Oseen's theory to the determination of the friction experienced by an infinitely thin flat plate'; 'On the application of statistical mechanics to the theory of turbulent fluid motion. IV, V, VI, VII; Introductory remarks on recent investigations concerning the structure of liquids'; 'On the motion of small particles of elongated form,suspended in a viscous liquid'; 'Mathematical examples illustrating relations occurring in the theory of turbulent fluid motion'; 'Some considerations on the fields of stress connected with dislocations in a regular crystal lattice. I, II'; 'Application of a model system to illustrate some points of the statistical theory of free turbulence'; 'On the application of viscosity data to the determination of the shape of protein molecules in solution'; 'Some considerations on the development of boundary layers in the case of flows having a rotational component';..

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