Identification and calculation of the universal asymptote for drag reduction by polymers in wall bounded turbulence

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 19, 2005, Pages

  Benzi, Roberto ^a   De Angelis, Elisabetta ^b   L'Vov, Victor S ^c   Procaccia, Itamar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG REDUCTION; UNIVERSAL ASYMPTOTE; VISCOELASTIC EXPERIMENTS; WALL BOUNDED TURBULENCE;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYMERS; TURBULENCE; VISCOELASTICITY;

DRAG;

EID: 28844455124     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.194502     Document Type: Article

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