Bubble-induced skin-friction drag reduction and the abrupt transition to air-layer drag reduction

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 612, Issue , 2008, Pages 201-236

  Elbing, Brian R ^a   Winkel, Eric S ^a   Lay, Keary A ^a   Ceccio, Steven L ^a   Dowling, David R ^a   Perlin, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FRICTION; POROUS PLATES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SKIN FRICTION; SPEED; SURFACE TENSION; TURBULENT FLOW; VOID FRACTION;

BOUNDARY LAYER THICKNESS; CAVITATION CHANNELS; DOWNSTREAM DISTANCES; FRICTION DRAG REDUCTIONS; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; STREAMWISE LOCATIONS; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; ZERO PRESSURE GRADIENT;

DRAG REDUCTION;

BUBBLE; CAVITATION; DRAG; ESTIMATION METHOD; FRICTION; HYDRAULICS; IMAGING METHOD; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE TENSION; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 52749087908     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008003029     Document Type: Article

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