The determination of the local skin friction and the thickness of turbulent boundary layers from the velocity similarity laws¹

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Granville, Paul S.

Affiliations: David Taylor Model Basin, Navy Department, Washington, D.C.

Note: [1] This paper was presented to the 12th American Towing Tank Conference at the University of California, Berkeley, September 1959 (TMB Report 1340).

Abstract: The applicability of pipe calibrations of Preston tubes to boundary-layers is discussed on the basis of the logarithmic similarity law and the displacement effect of the tubes. A new logarithmic formula for the boundary-layer thickness of flat plates which is especially useful for high Reynolds numbers is also derived from the similarity laws.

DOI: 10.3233/ISP-1960-76903

Journal: International Shipbuilding Progress, vol. 7, no. 69, pp. 213-220, 1960