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A Closed Formula for the Drag of a Flat Plate with Transition in the Absence of a Pressure Gradient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

A. R. Collar
A. R. Collar*
Affiliation:
University of Bristol
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Most University students of fluid mechanics are familiar with the problem of the evaluation of the skin friction drag of a flat plate in the absence of a pressure gradient: transition is specified, usually by the free stream velocity and the transition point, or directly by the transition Reynolds number. The solution is normally obtained numerically: so far as the writer is aware, the processes used have not been written down in closed analytical form, though to do so presents no difficulty.

Type
Technical Notes
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 64 , Issue 589 , January 1960 , pp. 38 - 39
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1960

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