Luigi Crocco (February 2, 1909, Palermo - November 19, 1986, Rome) - Italian engineer; one of the world's leading scientists in the field of theoretical aerodynamics and rocket engines.
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| Date of Birth | February 2, 1909 |
| Place of Birth | Palermo |
| Date of death | November 19, 1986 (aged 77) |
| Place of death | Rome |
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| Place of work | Princeton University |
| Alma mater | University of Rome |
| Known as | Crocco's theorem |
| Awards and prizes | (1985) |
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Biography
The son of a mechanical scientist, one of the pioneers of aeronautics Gaetano Arturo Crocco .
He graduated from the University of Rome (1931).
He worked in Italy, studied the theory of aircraft engines, and then moved to Princeton University , where he taught the theory of aircraft and space engines and the theory of space flight.
Received American citizenship, became director of the Guggenheim Center for Jet Propulsion at the California Institute of Technology ; headed the Center from 1949 to 1973.
For family reasons, he returned to Europe at the end of 1960. He taught in Paris at the Central School.
He was a consultant to the French government on the use of nitromethane and American companies in the field of rocket engines. He collaborated with NASA on the creation of the F-1 rocket engine , the Saturn 5 launch vehicle, and the US Apollo lunar program.
Scientific Interests
Fundamental results in aerodynamics, gas dynamics, turbulence, boundary layer theory, vortex gas flows, combustion processes, rocket engine theory, etc.
Known as the author of the Friedman – Crocco theorem [1] and one of the forms for writing the equations of the boundary layer ( Crocco equation ) [2] .
Bibliography
Krokko L., Zhen Xin-i. The theory of combustion instability in liquid rocket engines. - M .: IIL , 1958.- 351 p. [3]
Notes
- ↑ The kinematic property of the vorticity of the ideal gas flow is associated with its thermodynamic parameters, the so-called L. Crocco theorem, from which it follows that for entropy constant and complete enthalpy it is either vortex-free or helical (the vorticity vector is parallel to the velocity vector). A plane-parallel flow of this type will always be vortex-free.
- ↑ Loitsyansky L.G. Mechanics of liquid and gas. 3rd ed. - M .: Nauka , 1970 .-- 904 p. - S. 568.
- ↑ MFN catalog
Links
- “ Cròcco, Luigi” , dalle Enciclopedie online dell ' Istituto dell'Enciclopedia italiana Treccani , Roma (Italian)
- Ciampaglia Giuseppe: "La propulsione a reazione in Italia dalle origini al 1943." Ufficio Storico Aeronautica Militare Italiana. Roma 2002. (Italian)