Ludwig Prandtl

Ludwig Prandtl

Ludwig Prandtl (4 February 1875 – 15 August 1953) was a German fluid dynamicist, physicist and aerospace scientist. He was a pioneer in the development of rigorous systematic mathematical analyses which he used for underlying the science of aerodynamics, which have come to form the basis of the applied science of aeronautical engineering. In the 1920s, he developed the mathematical basis for the fundamental principles of subsonic aerodynamics in particular; and in general up to and including transonic velocities. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludwig Prandtl has received more than 279,465 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Ludwig Prandtl is the 285th most popular physicist (down from 254th in 2019), the 1,205th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,011th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular German Physicist.

Prandtl was a German engineer and mathematician who is most famous for his work in fluid dynamics. His most notable contribution to fluid dynamics is the Prandtl-Glauert singularity theory, which is a mathematical way of describing the transition from laminar to turbulent flow.