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 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.

For a 9-in. pipe, the skin friction on the pile plus the bearing area of the bottom of the pipe seems to be about 20 tons, irrespective of the depth.

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

And just as the surface, or "skin," friction forms waves at the surface of water, it also piles the desert sand in wave-like dunes.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello

The whole upper vault is charged with pale krypton vapours, which our skin friction may excite to unholy manifestations.

From Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard