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Reduction of Aerodynamic Drag

1981
Abstract : A study is being made of the effect on aerodynamic drag of boundary layer irradiation by radioactive sources. A blow-down wind tunnel and a skin friction drag balance have been designed and constructed. The balance is of the null-position type, and is operated using an automatic control system to maintain the null position of the drag plate.
J. Clark   +3 more
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Reduction of base drag

Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 1975
Abstract The present paper gives a review of various existing methods for reducing base drag of two-dimensional and axisymmetric bodies having a blunt base. These methods include splitter plates, both thin and thick, splitter wedges, base bleed. boat-tailing and various types of serrated trailing edges.
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Hydrodynamic Drag Reduction

2015
Abstract : National Center for Computational Engineering (SimCenter), University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, focused on the development of a computational procedure to evaluate various drag reduction strategies for hydrodynamically bluff-body vehicles.
Bruce Hilbert   +2 more
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Drag Reduction by Additives

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 1969
An examination is made of the experimental evidence for the reduction of skin friction in dilute solutions of high molecular weight linear polymers below that of the solvent alone. Inferences are drawn about the necessary properties of the polymers and their solvents, and the mechanical properties of the solutions are described.
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Drag reduction fundamentals

AIChE Journal, 1975
AbstractDrag reduction by dilute solutions of linear, random‐coiling macromolecules in turbulent pipe flow is reviewed. The experimental evidence is emphasized in three sections concerned with the graphical display of established features of the phenomenon, data correlation and analysis, and the physical mechanism of drag reduction.
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The Importance of Drag Reduction

Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, 1936
THE contents of a technical journal such as AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING are of necessity indicative of current thought. Its pages at any given time reflect the problems that are confronting designers and the doubts that may be perplexing them. At the same time, they give a picture of the manner in which progress is being made and the order in which various ...
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Microbubble Drag Reduction

1989
Over the past twenty-five years there has been extensive and sustained research aimed both at determining techniques for reducing skin friction drag and at explaining how successful techniques work. Certainly, one reason for pursuing this research is because of our need to drive systems faster and farther for the same power, but this is only part of ...
C. L. Merkle, S. Deutsch
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Drag Reduction and Turbulence

1995
The subject of turbulence is by far too complicated to be handled in an introductionary chapter. Therefore, the goal of these notes is to introduce those elements of a description of turbulence which are relevant for representing the interaction of a turbulent flow field with dissolved or suspended additives.
A. Gyr, H.-W. Bewersdorff
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Forebody Drag Reduction

AIAA Journal, 1981
It is shown that the mechanisms of forebody drag reduction by means of either a spike or a forward-facing jet are similar, with the maximum achievable drag reduction being of the same order. Because the jet may be a relatively cool gas, however, the forward facing jet has the additional capability of reducing the aerodynamic heating that is so severe ...
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On the mechanism of drag reduction

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 1995
Recent studies indicate that growing streamwise perturbations driven by streamwise vortices and the resulting Reynolds stresses play a significant role in both the transition to turbulence and the near-wall turbulent flow. In this note, we show that viscoelasticity introduces a negative feedback, so that the streamwise flow driven by a streamwise ...
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