skin friction

British  

noun

1. the friction acting on a solid body when it is moving through a fluid

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skin friction Scientific  

1. See under drag

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Example Sentences

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

The surfaces of the aeroplane are called the skin, and there is some friction of air against these surfaces, and that is called skin friction.

From The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land by Stuart, Gordon

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.

With reference to the skin friction on piles, the writer agrees with Mr. Meem that in certain classes of material this is almost a negligible quantity.

From Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174, Volume LXX, December 1910 by Meem, J. C.

Well, yuh see, the propeller has to make the machine move through the air with the smallest amount of skin friction.

From The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land by Stuart, Gordon