The Scientific Papers of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (Paperback)

1. The conditions necessary for discontinuous motion in gases; 2. The use of fin surface to stabilize a weight towed from an aeroplane; 3. Pressure distribution round a cylinder; 4. Pressure distribution over the wing of an aeroplane in flight; 5. On the shapes of parachutes; 6. Scientific methods in aeronautics; 7. The 'rotational inflow factor' in propeller theory; 8. Notes on Mr Glauert's paper, 'An Aerodynamic Theory of the Airscrew'; 9. The singing of wires in a wind; 10. Note on the connection between the lift on an aerofoil in a wind and the circulation round it; 11. A manometer for use with small pitot tubes; 12. The energy of a body moving in an infinite fluid, with an application to airships; 13. The forces on a body placed in a curved or converging stream of fluid; 14. A mechanical method for solving problems of flow in compressible fluids; 15. The flow of air at high speeds past curved surfaces; 16. Some cases of flow of compressible fluids; 17. Recent work on the flow of compressible fluids; 18. Application to aeronautics of Ackeret's theory of aerofoils moving at speeds greater than that of sound; 19. The air pressure on a cone moving at high speeds, I; 20. The air pressure on a cone moving at high speeds, II; 21. The determination of drag by the pitot traverse method; 22. Determination of the pressure inside a hollow body in which there are a number of holes communicating with variable pressures outside; 23. The propagation and decay of blast waves; 24. Notes on possible equipment and technique for experiments on icing on aircraft; 25. Generation of ripples by wind blowing over a viscous fluid; 26. Notes on the dynamics of shock-waves from bare explosive charges; 27. Pressures on solid bodies near an explosion; 28. The stagnation temperature in a wake; 29. The propagation of blast waves over the ground; 30. Analysis of the explosion of a long cylindrical bomb detonated at one end; 31. The pressures and impulses of submarine explosion waves on plates; 32. The dispersion of jets of metals of low melting point in water; 33. The motion of a body in water when subjected to a sudden impulse; 34. Note on the lateral expansion behind a detonation wave; 35. The effect of the method of support in tests of damage to thin-walled structures by underwater explosions; 36. The vertical motion of a spherical bubble and the pressure and the pressure surrounding it; 37. The motion and shape of the hollow produced by an explosion in a liquid; 38. Experiments with 1/76-scale model of explosions near ½-scale asset target; 39. A formulation of Mr Tuck's conception of Munroe jets; 40. Blast impulse and fragment velocities from cased charges; 41. Note on the limiting ranges of large rockets; 42. The bursting of cylindrical cased charges; 43. Air resistance of a flat plate of very porous material; 44. The fragmentation of tubular bombs; 45. The aerodynamics of porous sheets; 46. Pitot pressure in moist air; 47. The air wave surrounding an expanding sphere; 48. The mechanics of swirl atomisers; 49. The effect of wire gauze on small disturbances in a uniform stream; 50. The shape and acceleration of a drop in a high-speed air stream; 51. The dynamics of the combustion products behind planes and spherical detonation fronts in explosives; 52. The mechanics of large bubbles rising through extended liquids and through liquids in tubes; 53. The formation of a blast wave from a very intense explosion, I: theoretical discussion; 54. The formation of a blast wave from a very intense explosion, II: the atomic explosion of 1945; 55. The boundary layer in the converging nozzle of a swirl atomiser; 56. The instability of liquid surfaces when accelerated in a direction perpendicular to their planes, I; 57. The use of a vertical air jet as a windscreen; 58. Effects of compressibility at low Reynolds number.