Felix Frankl
Felix Frankl · Science & Medicine
Mathematician, partial differential equations and transonic aerodynamics
1905, Vienna, Austria — 1961, Nalchik, Soviet Union (Russia)
Austria · Soviet Union
Felix Frankl is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Mathematician, partial differential equations and transonic aerodynamics
Felix Frankl was an Austrian-born Jewish mathematician who trained in topology at the University of Vienna and emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1929. He turned to the theory of mixed elliptic-hyperbolic partial differential equations, deriving results (including the Frankl problem) fundamental to transonic aerodynamics — the flow regime between subsonic and supersonic speeds. His mathematical analysis underpinned mid-20th-century high-speed aircraft design.
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Mathematician, partial differential equations and transonic aerodynamics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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