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The Evaluation of Local Skin Friction in Compressible Flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

S. Sivasegaram
S. Sivasegaram*
Affiliation:
Formerly at Imperial College, London, now at the University of Ceylon.
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In a recent note, Allen has investigated the use of Preston tubes and Clauser charts for determining the skin friction in supersonic, boundary-layer flows. He concluded that the Preston tube was best used in conjunction with the law of the wall of Fenter and Stalmach but that the Baronti and Libby wall law was most suitable for determining local skin friction from velocity profiles; both methods are complex and do not permit the direct use of Clauser charts. The present note presents a simple transformation which permits incompressible Clauser charts to be used for the evaluation of skin friction in supersonic flows; the method is applicable to both adiabatic and nonadiabatic situations. Some conclusions, based on experimental experience, are drawn regarding the determination of skin friction by sub-layer methods.

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Technical Notes
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 75 , Issue 731 , November 1971 , pp. 793 - 795
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1971 

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