History
The Euler equations first appeared in published form in Euler's article “Principes généraux du mouvement des fluides,” published in Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Berlin in 1757. They were among the first partial differential equations to be written down. At the time Euler published his work, the system of equations consisted of the momentum and continuity equations, thus it was underdetermined except in the case of an incompressible fluid. An additional equation, which was later to be called the adiabatic condition, was supplied by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1816.
During the second half of the 19th century, it was found that the equation related to the conservation of energy must at all times be kept, while the adiabatic condition is a consequence of the fundamental laws in the case of smooth solutions. With the discovery of the special theory of relativity, the concepts of energy density, momentum density, and stress were unified into the concept of the stress-energy tensor, and energy and momentum were likewise unified into a single concept, the energy-momentum vector.
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