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The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the performance of flush mounted hot-film sensors for mean wall shear stress measurement in turbulent flows of dilute drag reducing polymer solution. A series of pipe flow expriments were conducted over a range of Reynolds numbers and polymer solution concentrations to compare the level of skin friction drag reduction measured by hot-film sensors with values calculated from pipe pressure drop. It is shown that water calibrated hot-film sensors consistently underestimate the wall shear stress suggesting that Reynolds analogy is not valid in dilute polymer solutions. The Newtonian form of the relationship between the wall shear stress and the heat transfer remains valid in dilute polymer solutions. However, multiplicative and additive factors in the relationship are shown to increase linearly with the logarithm of the polymer concentration.
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Harbison, W.L., Petrie, H.L. Evaluation of flush mounted hot-film sensors for skin friction reduction measurements in viscoelastic polymer solutions. Experiments in Fluids 11, 243–246 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00192750
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00192750