By J.M. Burgers
Since the 'Introduction' to the most textual content provides an account of how during which the issues taken care of within the following pages originated, this 'Preface' will be constrained to an acknowledgement of the help the paintings has obtained. It began in the course of the pe riod whilst i used to be professor of aero- and hydrodynamics on the Technical collage in Delft, Netherlands, and lots of discussions with colleagues ha ve in:fluenced its devel opment. Oftheir names I point out right here in simple terms that ofH. A. Kramers. Papers No. 1-13 ofthe checklist given on the finish ofthe textual content have been written in the course of that interval. numerous! ofthese have been makes an attempt to discover rules which later needed to be deserted, yet steadily a line of suggestion emerged which promised extra convinced effects. This line started to come to the foreground in pa in line with No. three (1939}, whereas a initial formula ofthe effects was once given in paper No. 12 (1954}. at the moment, besides the fact that, there nonetheless was once lacking a practica! technique for manipulating a definite distribution functionality of significant curiosity. A six months remain on the Hydrodynamics Laboratories ofthe California Institute of know-how, Pasadena, California (1950-1951}, was once supported through a freelance with the dep. of the Air F orce, N o. AF 33(038}-17207. A process lectures was once given in this interval, which have been released in typescript lower than the name 'On Turbulent Fluid Motion', as file No. E-34. 1, July 1951, of the Hydrodynamics Laboratory.
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5), subject to this condition. There is a further particularity in our contact problem: it requires that the path of the partide at its starting point ţ 1> 1J 1 has the direction of the tangent to the parabola; a similar condition is needed at the endpoint ţ 2 , 1] 2 , where the path ofthe partide must reach the parabola again. To take account of this we put the source of the diffusing partides, as well as the location of the point of observation for the second contact, slightly below the parabola, ata distance m' Lf, where m' is a numerica!
When we return to dimensions in terms of the original scales oflength and time, and remember that in these terms J has the dimensions IJT- 2 , it \ is seen that J 113 t 2 13 indeed is of dimension L; while J 2 13 t 113 is of dimension IJT- 1• The latter result has no great physical importance, since in ali further work 17 plays only the part of an auxiliary varia bie; nevertheless it is in agreement with the circumstance that the vertical scale refers to the quantity s, which is the integral of a velocity over a part of the horizontal scale.
The range of integration can now be limited to x1 = x. If y moves to the boundary S(x), the integral can be reduce d to I X