Technical Note: On Estimating Conditions for Simulating Velocity-Sensitive Corrosion in the Rotating Cylinder Electrode

Simulation of velocity-sensitive corrosion in the laboratory for predicting similar corrosion in the field is of ongoing interest. Such an approach seems to be especially practical when corrosion is controlled by the rate of mass transport to or from the surface. Such control, when measured under appropriate conditions in the laboratory, should be observed in the field. The present research goal was to review equations that allow the corrosion practitioner to estimate easily velocities in the laboratory that would simulate flow conditions in other geometries.