Meanwhile I get out on the water weekly, have boo koo thrust and am happy with my boat. Enjoy your search for optimum...
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From: "'Dan Hennis' dhennis@centurytel.net [electricboats]"
Date:06/01/2014 2:49 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] Electric Goliath ASD Tug vs. Goliath Diesel Tug
Myles, I guess I have to say that I have lumped all the guards together. There is specific criteria required to actually gain thrust by a nozzle-like structure. Here are a couple of good links to explain what I dare not.
By the time you have read and digested the contents of these, you will see that the relief between the twin hoops on the prop guard are counter-productive. There may be a miniscule increase in thrust, but not nearly as much as Kort or Rice have achieved with the 19a profile or the NACA 4415 profile and the like. Years ago, I got a book of NACA cross section designs and started reading the results from the NASA and I think JPL testing... There are an infinite number of curved surface designs out there, but to break the line of the surface at mid-point, tends to give a major loss in the Bernoulli principle. That being said, I also know there is ongoing research in the (forgot the name) stepped or notched wing designs.
Bottom line is the most important, .... If it works for you forget the "egg-head engineering", and go with what works in the "real world". I worked my way up the ranks from illiterate to engineering tech. Just because you have letters after your name does not make you smart or that your testing invalid. I applaud the effort and experience. Example: I was told many times by many "educated" people, "there is no harvestable wind resource in South Western Idaho." I became the first private wind farmer in Idaho, and after 3 years of me proving what I knew, the big boys came in, and populated a plethora of hilltops, ridgelines, and air channels, with the 1MW turbines making a fortune daily.
FWIW,
Dan
----- Original Message -----Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 1:43 PMSubject: RE: [Electric Boats] Electric Goliath ASD Tug vs. Goliath Diesel Tug
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