LAYOUT DIAGRAMS OF WATER VESSELS AND AIRCRAFTS WITH VORTEX PROPULSION UNITS

Abstract

For the English full text of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English version follows Russian version).ABSTRACT Layout schemes have been developed and calculated and theoretical estimates of the ranges of operational parameters of water vessels and airships (dirigibles) with vortex propulsion units have been made. A complex comparison of the characteristics of such ships and vessels of the same classes of the traditional separate «hull - propulsion unit» configuration is presented. The possibility of the scheme is shown on the basis of a group of similar modules in the form of surface vessels with two generators of vortex pairs of a family of essentially new types of water vessels - self-contained multipurpose units with an almost unlimited period of autonomous functioning in an arbitrary non-freezing water area of the World Ocean. It is established that in all parameters, in addition to speed, vessels with vortex propulsion units have advantages over their competitors. Keywords: vortex propulsion units, water and aeronautical vessels, surface and underwater (toroidal) vessels, mass-dimensional characteristics, layout schemes, operational parameters.