Practice question · Put in order
Order these milestones in fluid mechanics.
- Archimedes formulates buoyancy principle
- Reynolds introduces dimensionless number for flow regime
- Bernoulli publishes Hydrodynamica
- Torricelli measures atmospheric pressure with mercury
- Navier and Stokes derive viscous flow equations
Hints
- The buoyancy principle came far earlier than the rest.
- The regime criterion was the last of these to be formulated.
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- Archimedes formulates buoyancy principle
- Torricelli measures atmospheric pressure with mercury
- Bernoulli publishes Hydrodynamica
- Navier and Stokes derive viscous flow equations
- Reynolds introduces dimensionless number for flow regime
Why
Archimedes (c. 250 BCE), Torricelli (1644), Bernoulli (1738), Navier–Stokes (1820s–1840s), Reynolds (1883).
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