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Reduction of hydrodynamic drag and size of polymer particles

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The influence of the size of polymer particles and their number in the deformed fluid volume on the Thoms effect is examined in an example of biopolymers of surface extractions of water animals.

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  1. T. G. Shevchenko Kiev State University, USSR

    I. A. Uskov, E. T. Uskova & N. M. Belova

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  1. I. A. Uskov
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 815–819, November, 1980.

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Uskov, I.A., Uskova, E.T. & Belova, N.M. Reduction of hydrodynamic drag and size of polymer particles. Journal of Engineering Physics 39, 1189–1192 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00824738

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