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AbstractA prolate spheroid submerged in water can be heated for decreasing the viscous drag because of a decrease in viscosity with increasing temperature. The heated boundary layer experiment, based on this principle, was carried out in a circulating water channel of NCKU, and the viscous drag of a spheroid, with a five-to-one ratio of length to mid-diameter, was also measured by means of wake surveys...