ALBRING

GERMANY (see also List of Individuals)

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26.9.1914 Schwelm/D - 21.12.2007 Dresden/D

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Werner Albring made his engineering studies from 1934 to 1938 at Hannover Technical University and there submitted his PhD thesis in 1941. Until 1945 he acted there as the deputy head of the Institute of Aviation to move from 1947 to 1952 to the USSR. During these years Albring investigated rocketry flight and eventually developed into an expert of this then important branch of fluid dynamics. He was appointed professor of fluid mechanics at the Dresden Technical University in 1952 and remained there until retirement in 1979.

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Albring contributed to fluid machinery such as with a paper in which the boundary layer equations valid for rotating elements are transformed to a plane movement. He was particularly known for the book Angewandte Strömungslehre first published in 1961, in which the principles of fluid mechanics were clearly presented. Albring was awarded the Nationalpreis of the German Democratic Republic in 1972; he was a Corresponding Member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences from 1959, and promoted to Member in 1961. He held Honorary Doctorates from the Polytechnic Institute of Leningrad from 1984, and the Technical University of Budapest from 1991. Albring was associated with the German journal Maschinenbautechnik throughout his stay in Dresden.

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_{Albring, W. (1956). Aufgaben und Möglichkeiten der Strömungslehre bei der Entwicklung des Maschinenbaus. Abhandlungen der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften 3. Akademie-Verlag: Berlin.}

_{Albring, W. (1961). Angewandte Strömungslehre. Akademie-Verlag: Berlin.}

_{Albring, W. (1966). Helmholtz schuf eine Ähnlichkeitstheorie für Strömungen. Maschinenbautechnik 15(3): 113-118.}

_{Anonymous (1964). Prof. Dr.-Ing. Albring zum 50. Geburtstag. Maschinenbautechnik 13(10):}

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_{Grundmann, R. (1995). Prof. Dr.-Ing.mult. Werner Albring. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift TU Dresden 44(3): 9.}

_{Hartkopf, W. (1992). Albring. Die Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften: 5. Akademie-Verlag: Berlin.}

_{Hoffmeister, M. (1979). Prof. Dr.-Ing. Albring 65 Jahre. Maschinenbautechnik 28(8): 359. P}

_{Poggendorff, J.C. (1953). Albring, Anton Oskar Wilhelm Werner. Biographisch-Literarisches Handwörterbuch 7a: 25; 8: 53-55. Akademie-Verlag: Berlin, with bibliography.}

_{Vogel, R. (1974). Werner Albring - eine Skizze. Maschinenbautechnik 23(9): 386. P}