The curious events leading to the theory of shock waves

DOI10.1007/s00193-007-0084-zzbMath1195.01015OpenAlexW2140160548MaRDI QIDQ1958112

Manuel D. Salas

Publication date: 28 September 2010

Published in: Shock Waves (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20060047586

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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