Drag reduction: Enticing turbulence, and then an industry

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1940, 2011, Pages 1556-1569

  Spalart, Philippe R ^a   Mclean, J Douglas ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drag reduction; Pressure drag; Reynolds number; Viscous drag

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG REDUCTION; FLOW CONTROL; FRICTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SKIN FRICTION; TRIBOLOGY; TURBULENCE;

ACTIVE FLOW CONTROL; FLIGHT TEST; FRICTION REDUCTION; LAMINARIZATION; LOGARITHMIC LAW; PRESSURE DRAG; RIBLETS; SMALL-SCALE EXPERIMENT; VISCOUS DRAG;

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 79954485471     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0369     Document Type: Article

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