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Unpublished paper, 'Some differences in the behaviour of real fluids from that of the mathematical perfect fluid' by A [Henry Reginald Arnulph] Mallock

Reference number: AP/73/16

Date: 04 May 1898

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Mallock writes: 'The perfect fluid known to mathematicians is defined as matter which has no power of resisting distortions and which fulfils the conditions of continuity in space [...] In this paper I propose to examine some of the differences which real fluid, such as air and water, show in their behaviour from that of a "perfect fluid" under the same conditions, and to suggest a possible cause for this difference.'

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout. Includes 12 pages of diagrams.

Subject: Mathematics / Fluid dynamics

Received 17 May 1898. Communicated by Lord Rayleigh.

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AP/73/16
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04 May 1898
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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30 pages
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Typescript
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Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock

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Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock, Unpublished paper, 'Some differences in the behaviour of real fluids from that of the mathematical perfect fluid' by A [Henry Reginald Arnulph] Mallock, 04 May 1898, AP/73/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_73_16/unpublished-paper-some-differences-in-the-behaviour-of-real-fluids-from-that-of-the-mathematical-perfect-fluid-by-a-henry-reginald-arnulph-mallock, accessed on 15 March 2025

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