Study of drag forces on a designed surface in bubbly water lubrication using electrolysis

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1383-1389

  Haosheng, Chen ^a   Jiang, Li ^b   Darong, Chen ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

Author keywords

Bubble; Drag reduction; Lubrication; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTROLYSIS; LUBRICATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

AIR LIQUID SURFACES; BUBBLY FLUIDS; DRAG FORCES; DRAG REDUCTION;

DRAG;

EID: 33751441091     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2354531     Document Type: Article

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