1938 - Pioneer in field of Discontinuous Automatic Control

* Flügge-Lotz was a pioneer in the development of the theory of discontinuous automatic control (also known as "on-off" and "bang-bang" systems), which has found wide application in hysteresis control systems. * These applications include guidance systems, electronics, fire-control systems, and temperature regulation. * She published what is now known as the "Lotz method" in 1931 for calculating the lift on a three-dimensional wing, and it became a standard technique used internationally. *While at Stanford, she conducted research in numerical methods to solve boundary layer problems in fluid dynamics, making pioneering contributions with finite difference methods and the use of computers.

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