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
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 Jewett Castello Gilson
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
Too often the bearing value on irregular surfaces as well as the bearing due to taper in piles, and lastly the resistance offered by binding, enter into the determination of so-called skin friction formulas.
From Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174, Volume LXX, December 1910 by J. C. Meem
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 J. C. Meem
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