skin friction
- the friction acting on a solid body when it is moving through a fluid
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Skin-Friction—The friction of the air with roughness of surface.
The Aeroplane SpeaksH. Barber
The third, skin-friction or surface resistance, is very small at low velocities, but increases as the square of the velocity.
The Theory and Practice of Model AeroplaningV. E. Johnson
skin friction
- See under drag.
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