Abstract
Knowledge of the wall shear stress is of both fundamental and practical importance. The mean stress is indicative of the overall state of the flow over a given surface while the fluctuating stress is a “footprint” of the individual processes that transfer momentum to the wall. The measurement techniques can be divided into two main categories: direct and indirect. The indirect techniques can be further divided into momentum balance methods and correlation methods.
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Haritonidis, J.H. (1989). The Measurement of Wall Shear Stress. In: Gad-el-Hak, M. (eds) Advances in Fluid Mechanics Measurements. Lecture Notes in Engineering, vol 45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83787-6_6
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