Entrapment tunnel monohull optimized waterjet and high payload

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2007-03-15

2008-09-02

Swinehart, Ed (Department: 3617)

Ships

Hull or hull adjunct employing fluid dynamic forces to...

Having fluid channeling or entrapping configuration

C114S288000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07418915

ABSTRACT:
An entrapment tunnel watercraft vessel having three hulls consists of a main hull and two amas arranged outboard of the main hull with the keels of the three hulls being parallel. The main hull is a narrow, vee hull with variable, rearwardly decreasing deadrise. The amas have very fine bows and narrow, asymmetric deep-V hulls, with nearly vertical slab outboard sides above their keels and variable reverse deadrise on their inboard sides with the reverse deadrise angles decreasing from bow to stem. The tunnels on each side of the main hull are formed by three distinct surfaces, the sides of the main hull above its chine, the reverse deadrise inboard sides of each ama upward from their keels and a ceiling surface transversely spanning the aforementioned sides and having rearwardly increasing deadrise and rearwardly decreasing width. The tunnel ceilings slopes down from the bow to a section aft of midship where the ceiling height above the keel remains essentially constant. At speed the craft generates substantial amounts of lift and positive trim, thereby reducing the forward wetted length of the immersed tunnel ceiling and the apex of the ceiling is approximately at the craft dynamic waterline. As a result the watercraft vessel has improved seakeeping, stability and weight carrying ability.

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