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IUTAM Symposium on The Physics of Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows on Rough Walls pp 127–133Cite as

Rough Wall Skin Friction Measurements Using a High Resolution Surface Balance

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This paper describes the design of a floating element friction balance which is based upon a commercially available micro force balance. The balance has a perfectly linear calibration function and was successfully applied to rough wall flows in a channel and a diffusor. Extrapolation of the turbulent shear stress measured by two component LDA to the wall matched exactly the shear stress measured using the friction balance. Also, the wall shear stress obtained from the balance in the fully developed channel flow agreed with the stress that could be derived from the pressure gradient to within 3%.

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  1. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Per-Åge Krogstad & Vladislav Efros

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Correspondence to Per-Åge Krogstad .

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  1. Dept. Engineering, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom

    T. B. Nickels

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Krogstad, PÅ., Efros, V. (2010). Rough Wall Skin Friction Measurements Using a High Resolution Surface Balance. In: Nickels, T. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on The Physics of Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows on Rough Walls. IUTAM Bookseries, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9631-9_18

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