Porous plate rocket torpedo
OwnerRobert F. Minehart, IIIinventor
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Abstract
The present invention includes a means to sustain a rocket torpedo's supercavation envelope to enhance the speed, maneuverability and resistance to percussion based counter measures. The invention includes machines using those aspects of the invention. The invention may also be used to upgrade, repair, or retrofit existing machines, using methods and components known in the art. The present invention comprises a porous plate technique never associated with torpedo design. This approach differs from previous efforts to apply porous plate designs to surface ships and differs as a proportional gas flow is achieved to sustain supercavation during all aspects of a torpedo travel to include but not limited cruising, diving, surfacing and while executing turns of any turning radius.
Claims1
What I claim as my invention is that a porous plate body material can be arranged to form longitudinal wall sections of a rocket torpedo to facilitate the proportional venting of gases for the purpose of sustaining a supercavitating envelop through extreme maneuvers and percussion based counter measures.
- The use of a Porous Plate body material arranged longitudinally to facilitate the proportionally venting of gases for the purpose of sustaining a supercavitating envelop through extreme maneuvers. The ejection ratio is a function of gas vented via the porous plate skin and the volume of gas generated by the torpedo tip (either by means non-gas ejecting cavitator or direct gas ejection) and the sine of the torpedo turning angle. The Ejection ratio is defined as
- E
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- π
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- L
- 2
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- D
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- Sin
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- (
- Θ
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- Where L is the length of the torpedo, D is the torpedo Diameter and θ is the turning angle of the torpedo with 0 degrees denotes straight travel.