what efforts would you to drag persons out of drag crises?
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In fluid dynamics, drag crisis (also known as the Eiffel paradox[1]) is a phenomenon in which drag coefficient drops off suddenly as Reynolds number increases. This has been well studied for round bodies like spheres and cylinders. The drag coefficient of a sphere will change rapidly from about 0.5 to 0.2 at a Reynolds number in the range of 300000. This corresponds to the point where the flow pattern changes, leaving a narrower turbulent wake. The behavior is highly dependent on small differences in the condition of the surface of the sphere.
Plot of drag coefficient against Reynolds number for rough or smooth spheres. A sharp drop is observed around Reynolds of 100000 to 1000000 for either.
The drag coefficient of a sphere drops at high Reynolds number (number 5 on the graph). The effect occurs at lower Reynolds numbers when the ball is rough (such as a golf ball with dimples) than when it is smooth (such as a table tennis ball).
History :
The drag crisis was observed in 1905[citation needed] by Nikolay Zhukovsky, who guessed that this paradox can be explained by the detachment of streamlines at different points of the sphere at different velocities.[2]
Later the paradox was independently discovered in experiments by Gustave Eiffel[3] and Charles Maurain.[4] Upon Eiffel's retirement, he built the first wind tunnel in a lab located at the base of the Eiffel Tower, to investigate wind loads on structures and early aircraft. In a series of test he found that the force loading experienced an abrupt decline at a critical Reynolds number.
The paradox was explained from boundary-layer theory by German fluid dynamicist Ludwig Prandtl.[5]
Explanation :-
This transition is associated with a transition from laminar to turbulent boundary layer flow adjacent to the object in question. In the case of cylindrical structures this transition is associated with a transition from well organized vortex shedding to randomized shedding behavior for super-critical Reynolds numbers, eventually returning to well organized shedding at the post-critical Reynolds number with a return to elevated drag force coefficients.
The super-critical behavior can be described semi-empirically using statistical means or by sophisticated computational fluid dynamics software (CFD) that takes into account the fluid-structure interaction for the given fluid conditions using Large Eddy Simulation (LES) that includes the dynamic displacements of the structure (DLES) [11]. These calculations also demonstrate the importance of the blockage ratio present for intrusive fittings in pipe flow and wind-tunnel tests.
The critical Reynolds number is a function of turbulence intensity, upstream velocity profile, and wall-effects (velocity gradients). The semi-empirical descriptions of the drag crisis are often described in terms of a Strouhal bandwidth and the vortex shedding is described by broad-band spectral content