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  2. Skin friction line - Wikipedia

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    A limit streamline is a streamline where the distance normal to the surface tends to zero. Limit streamlines and skin friction lines coincide. [1] The lines can be visualized by placing a viscous film on the surface. [1] The skin friction lines may exhibit a number of different types of singularities: attachment nodes, detachment nodes ...

  3. Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines - Wikipedia

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    The dashed lines represent contours of the velocity field (streamlines), showing the motion of the whole field at the same time. (See high resolution version.) Solid blue lines and broken grey lines represent the streamlines. The red arrows show the direction and magnitude of the flow velocity. These arrows are tangential to the streamline.

  4. Drag (physics) - Wikipedia

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    skin friction drag or viscous drag due to the friction between the fluid and a surface which may be the outside of an object, or inside such as the bore of a pipe The effect of streamlining on the relative proportions of skin friction and form drag is shown for two different body sections: An airfoil, which is a streamlined body, and a cylinder ...

  5. Streamline (swimming) - Wikipedia

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    Streamline form is a swimming technique that is used underwater in every stroke. At the start of a race or on a turn , streamline form is used, usually along with a dolphin kick or flutter kick, to create the least amount of resistance to help the swimmer propel as far as they can.

  6. Aquatic locomotion - Wikipedia

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    The collision causes drag against moving fish, which is why many fish are streamlined in shape. Streamlined shapes work to reduce drag by orienting elongated objects parallel to the force of drag, therefore allowing the current to pass over and taper off the end of the fish. This streamlined shape allows for more efficient use of energy locomotion.

  7. Stagnation point flow - Wikipedia

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    In fluid dynamics, a stagnation point flow refers to a fluid flow in the neighbourhood of a stagnation point (in two-dimensional flows) or a stagnation line (in three-dimensional flows) with which the stagnation point/line refers to a point/line where the velocity is zero in the inviscid approximation. The flow specifically considers a class of ...

  8. Fish locomotion - Wikipedia

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    Strouhal number is constant over similar speed ranged adult fishes. Strouhal number does not only depend on the small size of the swimmers, but also dependent to the flow regime. As in fishes which swim in viscous or high-friction flow regime, would create high body drag which will lead to higher Strouhal number.

  9. Skin friction drag - Wikipedia

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    Skin friction drag is a type of aerodynamic or hydrodynamic drag, which is resistant force exerted on an object moving in a fluid.Skin friction drag is caused by the viscosity of fluids and is developed from laminar drag to turbulent drag as a fluid moves on the surface of an object.