Explore: Wave Drag

In aeronautics, wave drag is a component of the aerodynamic drag on aircraft wings and fuselage, propeller blade tips and projectiles moving at transonic

of categorizing drag. Pressure drag and friction drag Profile drag and induced drag Vortex drag, wave drag and wake drag The pressure distribution acting

Parasitic drag, also known as profile drag, is a type of aerodynamic drag that acts on any object when the object is moving through a fluid. Parasitic drag is

waves formed at these zones of sonic flow cause a sudden increase in drag, called wave drag. To reduce the number and strength of these shock waves,

British English) is an airfoil designed primarily to delay the onset of wave drag in the transonic speed range. Supercritical airfoils are characterized

extracted as work, and as a drag force on supersonic objects; shock waves are strongly irreversible processes. Shock waves can be: Normal At 90° (perpendicular)

increase in drag from about Mach 0.8, and it is the fuel costs of the drag that typically limits the airspeed. Attempts to reduce wave drag can be seen

Wave-making resistance or wave resistance is a form of drag that affects any object moving on a surface of a fluid, such as boats and ships moving on

which avoids the formation of N-type shock waves and thus does not create a sonic boom or the associated wave drag. However in its original form it does not

The Sears–Haack body is the shape with the lowest theoretical wave drag in supersonic flow, for a slender solid body of revolution with a given body length