skin friction
Britishnoun
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Theodore von Karman and Hsue-shen Tsien declared that to avoid heating and to keep down skin friction, the surface of the plane would have to be polished to mirror smoothness.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the cutting edge from 20 to 30 ft. below the river bottom, the calculations showed that the skin friction was between 500 and 600 lb. per sq. ft.
From Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174, Volume LXX, December 1910 by Meem, J. C.
Distinction, also, is not made, but should be clearly drawn between skin friction, pure and simple, on smooth surfaces, and the friction due to pressure.
From Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174, Volume LXX, December 1910 by Meem, J. C.
The current theory had been that the sharper the cylinder the easier it would cut through the air, and nothing was thought of the skin friction.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various
The assumption generally made of an assumed bearing value, and the deduction therefrom of a value for the skin friction is fallacious.
From Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174, Volume LXX, December 1910 by Meem, J. C.
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