The Effect of Wall Suction on the Turbulent Pipe-Flow Friction Coefficient.

Abstract

The report deals with the flow-friction induced by wall suction at the boundary walls of main channels in missile transpiration-cooling systems, gas-turbine heat exchangers, porous-wall chemical reactors, and pipe condensers of space power plants. The pronounced effect of wall suction on the friction of turbulent flow in these systems prompts a search for verified engineering flow-friction correlations. Results of a series of experiments are reported, together with an analysis of related experiments reported earlier in the literature. Comparisons are made with previous porous-pipe turbulent-flow experiments of Weissberg and Berman and with the later porous-pipe experiments of Burnage and the results of the self-similar analytical theory of turbulent pipe-flow with suction are also compared with experiment. (Author Modified Abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0757584

Entities

People

  • R. Kalny
  • R. W. Allen
  • R. W. Newman

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Boundaries
  • Chemical Reactors
  • Coefficients
  • Engineering
  • Flow
  • Friction
  • Gas Turbines
  • Heat Exchangers
  • Literature
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Pipe Flow
  • Turbines
  • Turbulent Flow

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster