Hermann Glauert

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Hermann Glauert (born October 4, 1892 in Sheffield , Yorkshire , † August 6, 1934 in Aldershot, Hampshire ) was a British aerodynamicist .

His father, the cutlery manufacturer Louis Glauert, came from Germany and emigrated to England at a young age. One brother was Ludwig Glauert .

Hermann attended the King Edwards School in Sheffield and from 1910 the Trinity College in Cambridge. In 1913 he entered the first class of the mathematical tripos and earned the Tyson Medal for Astronomy. In 1914 he was awarded the Newton Prize for Astronomy and Physical Optics, and in 1915 he was awarded the Rayleigh Prize in Mathematics.

When the First World War broke out in 1914, his German ancestry bothered him. In 1916 a friend, William Scott Farren, referred him to the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough (Hampshire) , where he initially went for the duration of the war. But he stayed there for the rest of his life.

During the war he lived there with Francis William Aston , Frederick Lindemann , Geoffrey Ingram Taylor , Farren, Bennett Melvill Jones (1887–1975), and Edgar Douglas Adrian in the so-called Chudleigh house .

In 1922 he married his colleague Muriel Barker, with whom he had three children.

He worked in the areas of profile theory, effectiveness of control surfaces and propeller theory. In 1928 he determined a correction factor for compressibility influences in the subsonic, which is named after himself and Ludwig Prandtl as Prandtl-Glauert transformation .

He died in an accident while watching a tree stump blow up.

Publications (selection)

  • The landing of airplanes ; 1920
  • A theory for thin airfoils ; 1924
  • The basics of hydrofoil and propeller theory ; 1926
  • Theoretical relationships for a wing with hinged flap ; 1927
  • Induced flow through a partially choked pipe ; 1932
  • The Interference on the characteristics of an aerofoil in a wind ; 1932
  • Wind tunnel interference on wings, bodies and airscrews ; 1933
  • Lift and drag of a wing spanning a free jet ; 1934
  • Influence of a uniform jet on the lift of an aerofoil ; 1936
  • The elements of aerofoil and airscrew theory ; 1926 ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.jstor.org/pss/768993
  2. ↑ http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Davis/Names/Barker_Muriel.html
personal data
SURNAME Glauert, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British aerodynamicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1934
Place of death Aldershot