MODELING OF THE MECHANISM OF DECREASING
THE HYDRODYNAMIC DRAG OF BODIES BY THE
SURFACE RUNNING WAVE METHOD

S. M. Aul'chenko

UDC 532.533

We explore the possibility of radically decreasing the 
hydrodynamic drag by changing the external flow so that the boundary 
layer is replaced by some flow with a small velocity gradient

Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the 
Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 4/1, Institutskaya 
Str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia; email: aultch@itam.nsc.ru. Translated 
from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 76, No. 6, pp. 24-28, 
November-December, 2003. Original article submitted May 20, 2003..