alt Hacker NewsThe core tenant of the paper is that roughness reduces drag IN the transition zone. A very small region of the total flow.
Thats the region between laminar and turbulent flow. Laminar flow is typically 5x less drag than turbulent, and will be encountered about a Reynolds number of 500K-1M (ratio of inertial flow to viscous flow).
Surfboards will have a Reynolds number of 10^7 which is entirely turbulent.
A Cessna aircraft will have a Reynolds number of 1-5x10^6.
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Maarten88 • today at 11:36 AM
> Surfboards will have a Reynolds number of 10^7 which is entirely turbulent.
A fin, foil or daggerboard below the board/boat is operating well within the range of Reynolds' numbers where laminar flow is relevant.
> core tenant
And Lady Mondegreen.