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Drag of a plate in a uniform flow of a weak polymer solution

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The problem of the drag of a plate moving in a weak polymer solution is solved on the basis of a three-layer schematization of the velocity distribution in the turbulent boundary layer.

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  1. M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, USSR

    G. V. Kireiko & V. N. Pilipenko

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vo. 41, No. 5, pp. 819–826, November, 1981.

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Kireiko, G.V., Pilipenko, V.N. Drag of a plate in a uniform flow of a weak polymer solution. Journal of Engineering Physics 41, 1195–1200 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00824917

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