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- Fineness_ratio abstract "Fineness ratio is a term used in naval architecture and aerospace engineering to describe the overall shape of a streamlined body. Specifically, it is the ratio of the length of a body to its maximum width; shapes that are \"short and fat\" have a low fineness ratio, those that are \"long and skinny\" have high fineness ratios. Aircraft that spend time at supersonic speeds generally have high fineness ratios, a canonical example being Concorde.At speeds below critical mach, one of the primary forms of drag is skin friction. As the name implies, this is drag caused by the interaction of the airflow with the aircraft's skin. To minimize this drag, the aircraft should be designed to minimize the exposed skin area, or \"wetted surface\", which generally implies the fuselage should be somewhat \"egg shaped\", with a fineness ratio about 4.5. A good example of such a design is the Questair Venture.Most aircraft have fineness ratios significantly greater than this, however. This is often due to the competing need to place the tail control surfaces at the end of a longer moment arm to increase their effectiveness. Reducing the length of the fuselage would require larger controls, which would offset the drag savings from using the ideal fineness ratio. An example of a high-performance design with an imperfect fineness ratio is the Lancair. In other cases, the designer is forced to use a non-ideal design due to outside factors such as seating arrangements or cargo pallet sizes. Modern airliners often have fineness ratios much higher than ideal, a side effect of their cylindrical cross-section which is selected for strength, as well as providing a single width to simplify seating layout.As an aircraft approaches the speed of sound, shock waves form on areas of greater curvature. These shock waves radiate away energy that the engines must supply, energy that does not go into making the aircraft go faster. This appears to be a new form of drag —referred to as wave drag— which peaks at about three times the drag at speeds even slightly below the critical mach. In order to minimize the wave drag, the curvature of the aircraft should be kept to a minimum, which implies much higher fineness ratios. This is why high-speed aircraft have long pointed noses and tails, and cockpit canopies that are flush to the fuselage line.More technically, the best possible performance for a supersonic design is typified by two \"perfect shapes\", the Sears-Haack body which is pointed at both ends, or the von Kármán ogive, which has a blunt tail. Well known examples include the Concorde, F-104 Starfighter and XB-70 Valkyrie, although to some degree practically every post-WWII interceptor aircraft featured such a design. Missile designers are even less interested in low-speed performance, and missiles generally have higher fineness ratios than most aircraft.The introduction of aircraft with higher fineness ratios also introduced a new form of instability, inertial coupling. As the engines and cockpit moved away from the center of the aircraft to locations ever further from the center of mass, the roll inertia of these masses grew to be able to overwhelm the power of the aerodynamic surfaces. A variety of methods are used to combat this effect, including oversized controls and stability augmentation systems.".
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- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Aerospace_engineering.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Airliner.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Autopilot.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Category:Aerodynamics.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Category:Aerospace_engineering.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Center_of_mass.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Concorde.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Critical_Mach_number.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Inertia_coupling.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Interceptor_aircraft.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Lancair.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Naval_architecture.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink North_American_XB-70_Valkyrie.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Nose_cone_design.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Questair_Venture.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Sears–Haack_body.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Shock_wave.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Skin_friction_drag.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Speed_of_sound.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Supersonic_speed.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Torque.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Wave_drag.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:streamline.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLink File:Concorde_on_Bristol.jpg.
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fineness ratio".
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLinkText "coefficient of fineness".
- Fineness_ratio wikiPageWikiLinkText "fineness ratio".
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- Fineness_ratio subject Category:Aerodynamics.
- Fineness_ratio subject Category:Aerospace_engineering.
- Fineness_ratio hypernym Term.
- Fineness_ratio type Aeronautic.
- Fineness_ratio type Discipline.
- Fineness_ratio type Dynamic.
- Fineness_ratio type Technology.
- Fineness_ratio comment "Fineness ratio is a term used in naval architecture and aerospace engineering to describe the overall shape of a streamlined body. Specifically, it is the ratio of the length of a body to its maximum width; shapes that are \"short and fat\" have a low fineness ratio, those that are \"long and skinny\" have high fineness ratios.".
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- Fineness_ratio depiction Concorde_on_Bristol.jpg.
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