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Can a divider “laminarize” turbulent flow and thus reduce friction?
Looking at the Moody chart I think to myself, the friction factor doesn't decrease much at all with Reynolds number after a certain point. I wonder if laminar flow is more efficient in a sense, and ...
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Entropy decrease using Stoke's flow?
There is a video of an experiment from University of Mexico using corn syrup (highly viscous) and water. They are "mixed together" in a container by turning a crank but when the crank is turned in the ...
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Boundary conditions for Couette flow
I'm trying to reproduce a result from a paper (T. Thatcher, Boundary Conditions for Grad's 13 moment equations, equation (32), page 6), however, I haven't been able to do so. Hopefully someone can ...