drag coefficient

English
Diagram of the drag coefficients of a number of shapes at a Reynolds number of approximately 10,000.

Noun

drag coefficient (plural drag coefficients)

  1. (physics) A dimensionless quantity quantifying the amount of hydrodynamic drag force experienced by an object with a given area immersed in a fluid of a given density flowing at a given speed.
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