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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2010 Dec;82(6):066310. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.066310. Epub 2010 Dec 14.

Drag reduction by polymer additives from turbulent spectra.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

Esteban Calzetta

Affiliations

  1. Departamento de FĂ­sica, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and IFIBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina. [email protected]

PMID: 21230737 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.066310

Abstract

We extend the analysis of the friction factor for turbulent pipe flow reported by G. Gioia and P. Chakraborty [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044502 (2006)] to the case where drag is reduced by polymer additives.

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