Air drag on a wire moving lengthways

[cosmo123]

Can anyone help me work out the air resistance on a wire as it moves along its length? I think it would only experience skin friction if it moved like this and the wire was smooth, so does anyone know how to calculate this? I am having difficulty looking it up.

 

[Andy Resnick]

Interesting... I wonder if you can apply the solution to Stoke's first problem to this:

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