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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] My PSUB Explorer



Sounds like a Venturi tube.

--- Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com> wrote:
> I only know it by that.  It is/was an experimental
> drive for a submarine
> intended for speed, I believe.  Take a submarine and
> put torpedo tubes
> running horizontal along the bottom.  Except they
> aren't torp's, they go
> to the prop, which is inside the tubes.  Wider at
> the front and narrower
> at the back, I believe.  Anyhow, it uses the same
> principle used by my
> industry- mining.  Look for information on suction
> dredging.  Jeene
> Engineering makes those kinds of dredges.  You have
> a little bit of high
> pressure water coming in at an angle, and it creates
> a suction brining
> in a lot more water through the bigger tube.  I'll
> have to sketch out
> the thing I saw and get it scanned.  Was many years
> back.  Don't even
> remember who I saw had it or where.  But that was
> the name, I believe. 
> Reportedly could increase speed with no noticeable
> increase in power
> consumption.
> Carl
> 
> 
> Michael B Holt wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:56:43 -0600 Coalbunny
> <coalbunny@vcn.com> writes:
> > >Why bother with props?  What's wrong with using
> "cavitated water
> > >jets"?
> > 
> > Or, along the same line (sort of), why not try
> shrouding the props with
> > thin plexiglass?
> > 
> > What's a cavitated water jet?   Do I know it by
> another name?
> > 
> > Mike H.
> > 
> >
>
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