How to Use boundary layer in a Sentence

boundary layer

noun

• When the boundary layer is too warm, the snowflakes end up melting on their way down.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023
• The drone can descend to the boundary layer of the hurricane, the part just above the ocean where heat and moisture cause more intense gusts.
  — Rebecca Cairns and Hazel Pfeifer, CNN, 18 Nov. 2022
• The dimples produce a thin, turbulent boundary layer of air that hugs the ball's surface, decreasing the size of wake at the back of the ball.
  — Jeff Harper, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2021
• In the case of airplanes, there’s a fluid boundary layer, a thin layer of air that covers any surface.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2022
• Two slots appear in the floor ahead of each of the belts, controlling the boundary layer that would otherwise confuse the results.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2022
• The mixture of the boundary layer is slightly cooler dry air and hot humid air which can cause intense storms.
  — Hollie Silverman, CNN, 24 June 2019
• The reason for this difference is what physicists refer to as the boundary layer.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 31 Jan. 2020
• One of the ways to get information from the boundary layer includes using an unmanned drone that can fly in and around the highest wind gusts.
  — Analisa Novak, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2022
• Finally, the side louvres have been replaced by scoops-big hairy scoops that poke out into the airstream beyond the boundary layer.
  — Car and Driver, 14 Sep. 2022
• Scientists explain the increasing evening heat by pointing to the section of the atmosphere called the boundary layer, which sits just above the ground.
  — Jane Braxton Little, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2020
• That smoke starts off in the eddies of what atmospheric scientists call the boundary layer.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 31 Aug. 2020
• At Dome A, however, Earth's boundary layer is only 45.6 feet high.
  — Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2020
• When escaping the effects of the boundary layer, location is key.
  — Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2020
• For aeroacoustic testing the rolling road is covered, and arrays of microphones set up just outside of the boundary layer.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2022
• The boundary layer is located 3,000 feet where the air and ocean meet—considered a violent churning cauldron of wind and salt water.
  — Analisa Novak, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2022
• The turbulence mixes moist air near the top of the cloud, pushing it up and out through an important boundary layer that caps stratocumulus clouds, while drawing dry air in from above.
  — Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2019
• The forecast called for more on and off snow showers through the early afternoon and the focus was along the lakefront because of boundary layer convergence and the influence of a northeast wind off the lake,’’ Scott said.
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Golf ball dimples reduce the drag flow by creating a turbulent boundary layer of air, while the ball's spin generates lift by creating a higher air pressure area on the bottom of the ball than on the top.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2019
• Scientists predict the boundary layer — a mix of original peak ring materials, tsunami deposits and melted rocks that fell from the sky — should span hundreds of feet.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• The boundary layer also makes them unsuited for desert climates, where the insulation puts them at risk of daytime overheating.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Sep. 2017
• The ability to fly low in a hurricane reveals details about the engine of a hurricane: the boundary layer where warm evaporating water energizes the clouds above.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2017
• The boundary layer, near the water surface, was saturated, but that saturation continued up about 3-5 km.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
• That is, astronomers should be able to use the helioseismological measurements to calculate the depth of an important boundary layer in the sun where radiation gives way to convection.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 July 2018
• This newest research also revealed that the boundary layer itself may be more complex than initially thought, with multiple layers of different temperature, density, and speed.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2019
• That boundary layer also carries a fair amount of water vapor — evaporated perspiration.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 31 Jan. 2020
• As individual piles merge, the thermal boundary layer along the tops of the merging thermochemical piles is disrupted, often resulting in anomalously large plumes that can entrain pile and ULVZ material.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2013
• Her specialty was the field of boundary layer effects on aerospace vehicle configurations at supersonic speeds.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024