Ships – Building – Antifriction surfaces
Patent
1989-10-31
1991-10-08
Basinger, Sherman
Ships
Building
Antifriction surfaces
114289, 244130, 244199, 244207, B63B 138
Patent
active
050544128
ABSTRACT:
A process for reducing skin friction, inhibiting the effects of liquid turbulence, and decreasing heat transfer in a system involving flow of a liquid along a surface of a body includes applying a substantially integral sheet of a gas, e.g., air, immediately adjacent to the surface of the body, e.g., a marine vehicle, which has a longitudinally grooved surface in proximity with the liquid and with a surface material having high contact angle between the liquid and said wall to reduce interaction of the liquid, e.g., water, with the surface of the body, e.g., the hull of the marine vehicle.
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Bushnell Dennis M.
Reed Jason C.
Weinstein Leonard M.
Adams Harold W.
Basinger Sherman
Brahan Thomas J.
Osborne Kevin B.
The United States of America as represented by the Administrator
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