Bernhard Wagner (engineer)

Bernhard Wagner (* around 1940 ; † April 18, 1999 ) was a German engineer and aerodynamicist .

life and work

After graduating from a humanistic grammar school, he studied from 1959 to 1966 in the mechanical engineering department at the Technical University of Darmstadt . After graduating, he started working as a research assistant. He received his doctorate with a dissertation in 1975 and then began working for the Dornier company in Friedrichshafen and later at Fairchild-Dornier in Oberpfaffenhofen. There he headed the department for theoretical aerodynamics since 1982.

In 1984, in addition to his engineering work, he took on a teaching position for "Numerical Methods in Theoretical Aerodynamics" at the Technical University of Darmstadt. In 1992 he was made an honorary professor.

Publications

Monographs

• Bernhard Wagner: Estimation of simulation errors and investigations of operating range extensions for the European transonic wind tunnel ETW . Specialized Information Center for Energy, Physics, Mathematics Karlsruhe, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen 1982. (Federal Ministry for Research and Technology, implementing institution: Dornier-System-GmbH, Theoretical Aerodynamics Department)
• Bernhard Wagner: Propulsion jet interference in missiles: summary and conclusion . Documentation Center of the Bundeswehr, Bonn 1979. (Published in the series: Research report from defense technology.)
• Bernhard Wagner: A theory for the calculation of conical paragliders with weak curvature in supersonic flow . Technical University of Darmstadt, 1975. (Submitted as a dissertation at Faculty 16 - Mechanical Engineering at TH Darmstadt.)

Articles in specialist journals and edited volumes, reprints

• Bernhard Wagner: Slender sliding wings with a small angle of attack . Institute for Aviation Technology at the Technical University of Darmstadt, 1970. Institute report 77, No. 4.
• Xaver Hafer and Bernhard Wagner: About some quadrature methods for the wing theory . In: Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erich Truckenbrodt . Institute for Aviation Technology at the Technical University of Darmstadt, 1976. pp. 149–174.
• Bernhard Wagner: A method for calculating the flow around sliding slender wings with a small pitch . Institute for Aviation Technology at the Technical University of Darmstadt, 1976.
• Bernhard Wagner: Theory of conical paragliders with weak curvature in supersonic flow . In: Zeitschrift für Flugwissenschaften. Institute for Flight Technology at the Technical University of Darmstadt, 1976. Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 246-258.
• Bernhard Wagner: Influence of sloping trailing edges and the influence of the dead weight of the covering on the flow around conical paragliders with weak curvature in the supersonic . In: Zeitschrift für Flugwissenschaften. Institute for Aviation Technology of the Technical University of Darmstadt, 1976. Vol. 24, No. 6.
• Bernhard Wagner: Investigations into conical supersonic wings with subsonic leading edges . Institute for Aviation Technology at the Technical University of Darmstadt, 1975.
• Bernhard Wagner: Sliding wings in the transonic area . In: DGLR-Symposium “Wing, Aerodynamics in Near-Sound Currents”, Göttingen 1972. Institute for Aviation Technology of the Technical University of Darmstadt, 1975. Institute report 72, No. 7.
• Bernhard Wagner and Willi Siegler: Measurements of wing-horizontal stabilizer interference up to the range of high angles of attack for a wing with an aspect ratio of five and a sweep of thirty degrees - a contribution to the problem of super-stall . Institute for Aviation Technology at the Technical University of Darmstadt, 1971.
• Bernhard Wagner and Hermann-Ludolf Weinreich: Influence of the V-position on the flight mechanical coefficients of wings calculated using the vortex lattice method . Institute for Aviation Technology at the Technical University of Darmstadt, 1970. Institute report 70, No. 3.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from July 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Obituary of the Department of Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics at TU Darmstadt 1999, page 6 (PDF, 1.14 MB)