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
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 Gordon Stuart
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 metallic skeleton was built up from aluminium and over this was stretched the fabric of the envelope, care being observed to reduce skin friction, as well as to achieve impermeability.
From Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
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 J. C. Meem
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