Glauert Explained

Glauert may refer to:

People:

• Hermann Glauert, FRS (born 1892), British aerodynamicist, Principal Scientific Officer of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough until 1934, husband of Muriel below.
• Ludwig Glauert (1879–1963), British-born Australian paleontologist, herpetologist and museum curator
• Muriel Glauert (1892–1949) British mathematician specialising in aerodynamics, wife of Hermann above.

Animals:

• Glauert's anglerfish (Allenichthys glauerti), an anglerfish that is unique to its genus
• Glauert's froglet (Crinia glauerti), a species of frog in the family Myobatrachidae

Technology:

• Prandtl–Glauert transformation, approximation function which allows to compare aerodynamical processes occurring at different Mach numbers
• Prandtl–Glauert singularity, drop in air pressure around an aircraft at transonic speeds causing a visible condensation cloud