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ZiDan Zhou1, ShengKun Wang1, ZeXiang Yan1

  • 1Key Laboratory of Micro/Nano Systems for Aerospace, Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Electromechanical Systems, School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, P. R. China.

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
|October 28, 2021
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Keywords:
air drag reductionclosed air channellow air drag surfacemultilayer hierarchical riblets (MLHRs)vortex behavior

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