Jakob Ackeret, FRAeS (17 March 1898 – 27 March 1981) was a Swiss aeronautical engineer. He is widely viewed as one of the foremost aeronautics experts...

philosopher Ernst Mach according to a proposal by the aeronautical engineer Jakob Ackeret in 1929. The word Mach is always capitalized since it derives from a...

3D problem as described above. The PG transformation was extended by Jakob Ackeret to supersonic-freestream flows in 1925. Like for the subsonic case,...

led by Ludwig Prandtl, including Theodore von Kármán, Max Munk and Jakob Ackeret. In 1930 he was promoted to professor at University of Göttingen. He...

the theory for flow properties before and after a shock wave, while Jakob Ackeret led the initial work of calculating the lift and drag of supersonic...

attempted to use the Magnus effect for propulsion. Assisted by Albert Betz, Jakob Ackeret, and Ludwig Prandtl, Flettner constructed an experimental rotor vessel;...

edges. The design used very thin wings of biconvex section proposed by Jakob Ackeret for low drag. The wing tips were "clipped" to keep them clear of the...

Germany with popularizing the idea. Others say Swiss gas dynamicist Jakob Ackeret (1898–1981) did the calculations. The calculations that purported to...

Ludwig Prandtl, Jakob Ackeret, Eastman Jacobs, Adolf Busemann, Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Gaetano Arturo Crocco, and Enrico Pistolesi. Ackeret presented a design...

International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. Jakob Ackeret Albert Betz Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius Adolf Busemann Kurt Hohenemser...

The M.52 had very thin wings of biconvex section, first proposed by Jakob Ackeret, since they gave a low level of drag. These wings were so thin that...

Abrams P-1 Explorer Gerd Achgelis (1908–1991) – helicopter pioneer Jakob Ackeret (1898–1981) Clément Ader (1841–1925) – early aviation pioneer Bruce...

Chandra Bose Jaguar (software) Jahn–Teller effect Jainendra K. Jain Jakob Ackeret Jakob Laub Jamal Nazrul Islam James A. Isenberg James A. Yorke James Alfred...

assistance from German physicist Albert Betz, Swiss aeronautical engineer Jakob Ackeret, German engineer Ludwig Prandtl and German theoretical physicist Albert...

(Professor at the ETH) Nikola Pašić, civil engineer (student on the ETH) Jakob Ackeret, aeronautical engineer (student of the ETH, Professor at the ETH) Gabriel...

1980 – Steve Fisher, American author and screenwriter (b. 1912) 1981 – Jakob Ackeret, Swiss engineer and academic (b. 1898) 1982 – Fazlur Khan, Bangladeshi-American...

Emmons, Harvard University (United States) 1970 – James J. Stoker 1969 – Jakob Ackeret 1968 – Warner T. Koiter 1967 – Hillel Poritsky 1966 – William Prager...

Medalist H. M. Horner - 1968 Medalist H. Julian Allen - 1969 Medalist Jakob Ackeret - 1970 Medalist Archibald E. Russell - 1971 Medalist William C. Mentzer...

seconds of running. In 1937, while Anne was being built, Griffith visited Jakob Ackeret of Brown Boveri, another turbine pioneer, and became convinced that...

(United Kingdom). 1926 – Einstein solves the tea leaf paradox. 1925 – Jakob Ackeret publishes the theory of supersonic airfoils. 1926 – Erwin Madelung relates...

Maurice Roy (engineer) [de; fr] 1964 Ernst Schmidt (engineer) [de] 1965 Jakob Ackeret 1966 Adolf Busemann 1967 Giuseppe Gabrielli 1968 Hans W. Liepmann 1969...

promotion during the season 1945–46. They played their home games in the St. Jakob Stadium. René Theler was voted as new chairman at the AGM and took over...

(Wetzikon) Brigitte Schläpfer, Grazia Stern, Joanne Aerne-Schmid, Christa Ackeret-Rupp, alternate: Esther Fanti 2021 championship not held 2022 Zollbrück...