Super high speed ship

Super high speed ship of big payload, May 2019

Abstract

A super high speed ship of big payload of my design provides extremely small transportation expenditures.  Being paired with the inland transportation in vacuum tubes, it would give tremendous influence on world markets and geopolitics.

There is a thin air cocoon around the hull of the ship under its waterline, and the ship’s nose is tilted back and forcing out the front water upward above sea level.

Such ship being 5000 ton payload considered below (e. g. 6 m * 10 m and 120 m length ~= 6500 m3 displacement) of 900 km/h speed = 250 m/s allows incredible low transportation expenditure about 0.022 kWh/ton-km

Regards,

David Judbarovski, 79, principle inventor, systems engineering, retired engineer,

judbarovski@gmail.com, Israel

My ship’s design is based on two key ideas.

(1) A force of 900 km/h = 250 m/s being so big on front water being an incompressible matter, that the ship’s nose being a form of a wedge tilted back to above and to its sides, the nose is throwing/pumping/forcing the front water upward above sea level in the air, and it is forming two waves along both sides of the ship’s route.

The frontal drag power is W = (6000 m3 / (250 m/s / 100 m) * 6 m = 90,000 kW

(2) The air cocoon is created along the underwater surface of the ship. Its area is approximately 1500 m2 under a waterline. The cocoon is collapsing the water friction force. The frontal water flow pressure is 1000 * (250 m/s ^2)/2 = 312 atm., so the cocoon must be protected ahead by firm barrier. The cocoon is created by pressed air current through perforated shield sectioned by air pressure can be controlled to be slightly bigger than ambient water pressure corresponded its deepness, so the cocoon thickness can be quite small and a power needed to support the cocoon can be relatively negligible too and can be adjusted by membrane control of air pressure.

So the total power is about 100,000 kW, or 0.022 kWh/ton-km = 100,000 kW * (1 km / 900 km/h) / 5000 ton.

For example, a small ship offered here can substitute 150,000 ton supertanker by an order of magnitude cheaper CAPEX, and much cheaper OPEX.

Really, 6500 ton * 900 km/h / 40 km/h =150,000 ton displacement,

It can be effective used for export: fresh agriculture products, oil, natural gas without its liquefying, other heavy and mass cargo for a long distance, and as a military quick response.