Vol. 50 No. 3 (2013)   Power Systems
Technical Papers

Basic Research of High-speed Underwater Cruise by Supercavitation

SHIGEKI TSUCHIYA
HIROSHI UCHIHORI
AKIRA OSHIMA
KAZUKI EGUCHI

Speeding up of underwater vehicles requires significant reduction of water fluid resistance. Supercavitation can dramatically reduce frictional resistance, which makes up a large portion of fluid resistance, by covering the body of the underwater vehicle
(This article is written in Japanese and only the abstract is written in English.)