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Hot-wire anemometer measurement of local skin friction coefficient

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Based on fine measurement of time-averaged data of hot-wire anemometer we have developed the method determining local values of skin-friction coefficient in the vicinity of the wall on the planar porous surface at the flow past which the noncanonical turbulent boundary layer is formed. The method may be applied at investigation of the efficiency of various effects on the incompressible boundary layer, in particular, with microblowing of air where usage of direct methods of friction determination is complicated.

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Boiko, A.V., Kornilov, V.I. Hot-wire anemometer measurement of local skin friction coefficient. Thermophys. Aeromech. 17, 577–586 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869864310040104

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