Calculate the power needed to overcome skin friction


A flat-bottomed barge, 25 m long and 10 m wide, submerged to a depth of 1.5 m, is to be pushed up a river at a rate of 8.6 km/hr. Calculate the power needed to overcome skin friction (in kW) if the temperature of the water is 15oC.

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