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Sure they do, it's just called fluid dynamics and thermodynamics. Enough to fill up about 1/3 of a mechanical engineering degree, if you're really into it (most
by nancyminusone 2y ago
Sure they do, it's just called fluid dynamics and thermodynamics. Enough to fill up about 1/3 of a mechanical engineering degree, if you're really into it (most aren't).
Not that there's a lot of historical context to things as far as which people did what - most of that sort live on in names of techniques and methods (Rankine cycle, de Laval turbine, Carnot efficiency, etc.)
- bigger_cheese 2y agoI studied Materials Engineering. Similar experience. Carnot, Thompson, Clausius, Gibbs, Rankine, Boltzman etc all made big historical contributions to modern understanding of Thermodynamics. And for Fluid Dynamics: Euler, Bernoulli, Mach, Stokes and so on. And if you are looking for someone more modern I'd say Ergun (Packed bed's, Fluidized Bed Reactors etc). All builds upon "steam science"