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  • Thumbnail for Shock wave
    passage of a supersonic aircraft is a type of sound wave produced by constructive interference. Unlike solitons (another kind of nonlinear wave), the energy...
    31 KB (3,959 words) - 22:01, 9 June 2024
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    Sonic boom (redirect from Supersonic boom)
    from a supersonic aircraft. When the aircraft is maneuvering, the pressure distribution changes into different forms, with a characteristic U-wave shape...
    28 KB (3,633 words) - 17:08, 27 April 2024
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    of supersonic aircraft. The aerodynamics of supersonic flight is called compressible flow because of the compression associated with the shock waves or...
    31 KB (3,981 words) - 17:31, 6 March 2024
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    These weak waves can combine in supersonic flow to become a shock wave if sufficient Mach waves are present at any location. Such a shock wave is called...
    4 KB (437 words) - 20:29, 21 March 2024
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    are traveling vibrations in the form of pressure waves in an elastic medium. Objects move at supersonic speed when the objects move faster than the speed...
    10 KB (1,151 words) - 16:58, 3 June 2024
  • tips and projectiles moving at transonic and supersonic speeds, due to the presence of shock waves. Wave drag is independent of viscous effects, and tends...
    6 KB (872 words) - 22:02, 1 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Oblique shock
    shock wave is a shock wave that, unlike a normal shock, is inclined with respect to the direction of incoming air. It occurs when a supersonic flow encounters...
    9 KB (1,235 words) - 13:57, 10 June 2024
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    A supersonic transport (SST) or a supersonic airliner is a civilian supersonic aircraft designed to transport passengers at speeds greater than the speed...
    70 KB (8,046 words) - 05:27, 27 April 2024
  • This is a list of wave topics. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z...
    10 KB (37 words) - 10:52, 7 November 2023
  • edge would behave as a blunt body in supersonic flight and thus would form a bow shock, which greatly increases wave drag. The airfoils' thickness, camber...
    6 KB (904 words) - 14:47, 18 April 2024
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    concave plane. At fully supersonic speed, the shock wave starts to take its cone shape and flow is either completely supersonic, or (in case of a blunt...
    23 KB (2,756 words) - 00:35, 30 May 2024
  • concepts ranging from the boundary layer to supersonic shock waves, supersonic wind tunnels, and supersonic nozzle design. Theodore von Kármán, a student...
    27 KB (3,817 words) - 16:38, 13 September 2023
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    Shock diamond (category Shock waves)
    formation of standing wave patterns that appear in the supersonic exhaust plume of an aerospace propulsion system, such as a supersonic jet engine, rocket...
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    A scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) is a variant of a ramjet airbreathing jet engine in which combustion takes place in supersonic airflow. As in...
    69 KB (8,217 words) - 20:25, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parasitic drag
    use of fairings. Wave drag, also known as supersonic wave drag or compressibility drag, is a component of form drag caused by shock waves generated when...
    8 KB (1,044 words) - 03:11, 7 June 2024
  • Boom Overture (category Supersonic transports)
    The Boom Overture is a proposed supersonic airliner capable of traveling Mach 1.7 (1,000 kn; 1,800 km/h; 1,100 mph), with 64–80 passengers depending on...
    27 KB (2,577 words) - 18:19, 30 April 2024
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    occur between about Mach 0.75 and 1.2. For supersonic speeds a different procedure called the supersonic area rule, developed by NACA aerodynamicist...
    19 KB (2,401 words) - 22:30, 13 April 2024
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    exposure Magnesium-alloy body Environmental sealing (splash proof) "Supersonic Wave Filter" dust reduction system cleans CCD at each camera start-up (dust...
    4 KB (361 words) - 15:13, 22 January 2023
  • Interpol discovers the dinosaur is vulnerable to supersonic waves, Katsura destroys their supersonic wave oscillator. However, Godzilla arrives and easily...
    19 KB (2,290 words) - 02:57, 1 June 2024
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    waves are involved in ARFI and no axial elasticity assessment is involved in SWEI. SWEI is implemented in supersonic shear imaging (SSI). Supersonic shear...
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