# [SCI] Hydrodynamics
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**Hydrodynamics** is the mathematical description of fluid motion, founded by Euler (1755) and extended to viscous fluids by Navier and Stokes (1822–1845).
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## Overview
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Leonhard Euler derived the equations for ideal (inviscid) fluid flow from Newton's laws. Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes independently added viscosity to obtain the Navier–Stokes equations, which govern all fluid motion — from blood flow to ocean currents, aircraft lift to turbine performance. These equations are nonlinear partial differential equations; their general solution remains one of the Millennium Prize Problems.
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Daniel Bernoulli's earlier work (1738) on pressure–velocity trade-off in pipe flow provided the first quantitative understanding of fluid dynamics and still underlies aircraft wing design.
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## Key Figures & Recognition
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- **Daniel Bernoulli** (1700–1782): *Hydrodynamica*, 1738.
- **Leonhard Euler** (1707–1783): Euler equations of fluid motion, 1755.
- **Claude-Louis Navier** (1785–1836) & **George Stokes** (1819–1903): Navier–Stokes equations.
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## Seminal Papers
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- Euler, L. "Principes généraux du mouvement des fluides." *Mém. Acad. Sci. Berlin* (1757).
- Navier, C.-L. "Sur les lois du mouvement des fluides." *Mém. Acad. R. Sci.* 6 (1827).
- Stokes, G.G. "On the Theories of the Internal Friction of Fluids in Motion." *Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc.* 8 (1845).
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# Parents
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* [SCI] Newtonian Mechanics⏎