Drag reduction in a flat-plate boundary layer flow by polymer additives

DOI10.1063/1.1924650zbMath1187.76575OpenAlexW2083553061MaRDI QIDQ3555117

Guoren Dou, Shuqing Yang

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1924650

zbMATH Keywords

frictiondifferential equationsdrag reductionviscosityboundary layer turbulencepolymer solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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