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Tubercle effect, a Common card
The tubercle effect is a phenomenon where tubercles or large 'bumps' on the leading edge of an airfoil can improve its aerodynamics.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 43
- Power
- 101
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,400
Power 101 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The tubercle effect works by channeling flow over the airfoil into more narrow streams, creating higher velocities.
- Another side effect of these channels is the reduction of flow moving over the wingtip and resulting in less induced drag due to wingtip vortices.
- Using computational modeling, it was determined that the presence of tubercles produces a delay in the angle of attack until stall, thereby increasing maximum lift and decreasing drag.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Tubercle effect article was read about 6,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 43: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Tubercle effect (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Nils Schlegel/ Lucas Friese, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.



