Drag-reducing paints for the reduction of fuel consumption in aviation and shipping

Progress in Organic Coatings

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 224-229

  Stenzel, Volkmar ^a   Wilke, Yvonne ^a   Hage, Wolfram ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY AND ADVANCED MATERIALS IFAM   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional coating; Riblets; Sharkskin; Turbulent drag reduction

Indexed keywords

ABRASION RESISTANCE; CAVITATION TUNNELS; COATING APPLICATION; COATING MATERIAL; DRAG MEASUREMENT; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; FUEL SAVINGS; FUNCTIONAL COATING; HIGH POTENTIAL; NEW PROCESS; RIBLETS; SHARKSKIN; SINGLE-STEP; SMOOTH COATINGS; TRANSPORTATION SECTOR; TURBULENT DRAG REDUCTION; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

AVIATION; EXPERIMENTS; FUEL ECONOMY; FUELS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PROTECTIVE COATINGS; SHIP MODELS; STEEL METALLURGY; WIND TUNNELS;

DRAG REDUCTION;

EID: 79952748049     PISSN: 03009440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.porgcoat.2010.09.026     Document Type: Article

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