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Do all of the ship handling parameters scale in the same fashion as the size of the ship is reduced? The article doesn't elaborate on this, but I bet there are
by matthewmcg 12y ago
Do all of the ship handling parameters scale in the same fashion as the size of the ship is reduced? The article doesn't elaborate on this, but I bet there are some interesting technical considerations involved in ensuring that everything is "true to scale" (or even in defining what that means!).
- phdp 12y agoNo, they would have to do some interesting things to the density or viscosity of the water for the handling to be similar. Or they could operate at 25x the speed that they currently are, but that doesn't seem feasible. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number