An Instrument for Skin-Friction Measurements in Thin Boundary Layers

1 December 1971

journal article
Published by ASME International in Journal of Basic Engineering

Vol. 93 (4) , 571-575
https://doi.org/10.1115/1.3425311

Abstract

A simple instrument for skin-friction measurements in adiabatic turbulent compressible boundary-layers is described. Its small size makes its use possible in very thin boundary layers. A universal calibration relation is given. A method of applying the instrument to obtain hitherto unavailable measurements of skin-friction in flows with finite pressure-gradient is proposed.

Keywords

SKIN FRICTION (FLUID DYNAMICS)
BOUNDARY LAYERS
INSTRUMENTATION
MEASUREMENT
TURBULENCE
FLOW (DYNAMICS)
CALIBRATION
PRESSURE GRADIENT

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: