Speculative Consideration on High-Frequency Instability of the Laminar Boundary Layer and Its Effect on the Design of Stabilizing Coatings.
ResearchPublished 1962
A discussion of stabilizing the laminar boundary layer by means of a distributed-damping coating applied to aircraft and hydrocraft. The skin-friction-drag advantages accruing from the elimination, or reduction, of the turbulent boundary layer are well known. On the basis of recent detailed boundary-layer measurements by others, and the limited success of this low-frequency stabilizing coating, the author advances the concept of high-frequency instability of the laminar boundary layer. On the basis of inferred wave lengths and frequencies confirmed by subsequent measurements, the design of stabilizing coatings is examined.
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- Year: 1962
- Pages: 18
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/pubs
- Document Number: RM-3284-PR
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