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A tracer dispersion study of the drag-reduction effect in a turbulent pipe flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

A. W. Bryson ,
Vr. Arunachalam  and
G. D. Fulford
A. W. Bryson
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Present address: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, R.S.A.
Vr. Arunachalam
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Present address: Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
G. D. Fulford
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Present address: Technical Services Department, Alumina Partners of Jamaica, Spur Tree P.O., Jamaica
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Abstract

Remarkable differences in dispersion of a tracer material injected into turbulent pipe flows of water and water containing as little as 2·5 parts per million by weight of a soluble high-molecular-weight drag-reducing polyoxyethylene additive have been measured. Analysis of the tracer response curves in terms of a simple one-parameter model shows that the observed results are compatible with a drag-reduction mechanism based on thickening of the viscous sublayer adjoining the wall. Other experiments, reported briefly, suggest that polymer adsorption on to the wall is responsible for this thickening.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , 31 May 1971 , pp. 209 - 230
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© 1971 Cambridge University Press

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