John D. Anderson, Jr., emeritus professor of Aeronautics at the University of Maryland, has written a definitive textbook on CFD. He is also a curator at the National Air and Space Museum, and the author of several books on aviation history. His latest book, "The Grand Designers...", for example, was favorably reviewed in the current issue of Technology & Culture ( vol. 61/3, pp. 976-978). One can assume he knows a lot about the history of CFD. I mentioned this SIGCIS discussion to him, and he replied that he would be happy to hear from those of you interested in the history of CFD. <andersonja@si.edu>. https://www.amazon.com/Computational-Dynamics-McGraw-Hill-International-Editions/dp/B017PO75E2/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=john+d+anderson+computational+fluid+dynamics&qid=1600969085&sr=8-1 ________________________________ From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Alexandre Hocquet <alexandre.hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 3:10 PM To: members@lists.sigcis.org <members@lists.sigcis.org> Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Historical Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Software External Email - Exercise Caution On 9/22/20 8:09 AM, Ulf Hashagen wrote:
I became interested in the history of "Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Software" last week, but could not find much historical source material on this topic so far. May I ask for your advice and comments?
dear Ulf, If you're into CFD *software* , this paper by Matthew Spencer : Spencer, Matthew. 2015. “Brittleness and Bureaucracy : Software as a Material for Science.” Perspectives on Science 23 (4): 466–84. narrates the history of [this piece of software] (https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.swmath....) and has a pioneering take on the influence of software on scientific activity. It was an inspiration for our (Frédéric Wieber and I) own work on computational chemistry software as historians of science. -- *********************************************** Alexandre Hocquet Archives Henri Poincaré & Science History Institute Alexandre.Hocquet@univ-lorraine.fr https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scienc... https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpoincare.u... *********************************************** _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.sigci... and you can change your subscription options at https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.sigci...