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Effect of the gas flow geometry and turbulence on the hydrodynamic drag of a body in the flow

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The effect of the incoming flow geometry on the hydrodynamic drag of a body is investigated in a numerical experiment simulating a free gas flow past a sphere as well as flows in cylindrical tubes of various radii, in a confuser, and a diffuser. The results of calculations lead to the conclusion that the confinement of the flow by the tube walls, its contraction and expansion may change the hydrodynamic force and the drag acting on the body insignificantly (not more than by 30%). This cannot explain the early drag crisis, in which the values of these quantities decrease by 4–7 times for Reynolds numbers on the order of 100. This phenomenon is explained theoretically by the effect of strong turbulence of the incoming flow to the body.

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Original Russian Text © N.N. Simakov, 2011, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2011, Vol. 81, No. 11, pp. 23–30.

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Simakov, N.N. Effect of the gas flow geometry and turbulence on the hydrodynamic drag of a body in the flow. Tech. Phys. 56, 1562–1569 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784211110247

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