Material Requirements for Boundary-Layer Stabilizing Coatings: Water Application.

M. O. Kramer

ResearchPublished 1962

An investigation of a potentially important technological advance in minimizing skin-friction drag. The method consists of favorably modifying the natural boundary-layer flow by means of distributed damping, as opposed to the more widely investigated distributed-suction method. It is deduced that improvements in stabilizing coatings can be expected if synthetic materials having higher resiliencies than that of natural rubber are used. Various types of materials for fabricating stabilizing coatings having very low damping and low moduli of elasticity are considered for possible subsequent application

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  • Year: 1962
  • Pages: 34
  • Document Number: RM-3018-PR

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Kramer, M. O., Material Requirements for Boundary-Layer Stabilizing Coatings: Water Application. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1962. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3018.html.
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