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Back to the drawing board.

Bulbous bows are designed to "cancel" out the hull's bow wave by inducing their 
own wave set that has the same frequency, but opposite phase, thereby reducing 
wave making resistance.

 

To make this work, the boat's speed has be within a very tight specified range 
and the amplitude of the pitching moment has be  relatively small to keep the 
bulb at the proper depth.

 

Neither of these conditions can be met on a small-ish hull form. The additional 
wetted surface and form drag eats you up.

 

Was tried in the 70's on 6 Meters and flopped horribly.

 

 

From: dwight veinot via CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2021 4:14 PM
To: Stus-List
Cc: dwight veinot
Subject: Stus-List Re: Burnished bottom paint

 

Would a bulbous bow below the waterline help

 

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 9:31 PM schiller via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> 
wrote:

No, but we did add "turbulators" to the tail section of the GBU-24 Bunker 
Buster Guided Bomb to break up the boundary layer between the bomb body and the 
wing section, causing turbulent flow over the wings.

Neil Schiller
1983 C&C #5-3, #028, "Grace"
Whitehall, Michigan

On 11/30/2021 6:05 PM, Graham Collins via CnC-List wrote:

Indeed.  You don't see dimples on the wings of aircraft, for a good reason...

Graham Collins
CS 36T

On 2021-11-30 3:50 p.m., Dreuge via CnC-List wrote:

 

On Nov 30, 2021, at 1:47 PM, Doug via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:

 

This is the reason golf balls have dimples. Aides in better flight, less 
resistance.  

 

 

 

 

Yes (if spinning) and No (as it adds lateral resistance).

 

Going with a smooth surface is the overall best approach as it promotes smooth 
laminar flow.   There are times when a ruff surface helps maintain laminar 
flow.  For example, the dimples on a golf ball create a thin turbulent layer 
which drags air and helps keep the lamina flow closer to the surface behind the 
ball.  The dimples add resistance to the flow but reduces the air wake behind 
the ball which reduces the overall drag force.  The laminar flow around a 
smooth ball does not wrap around the back of the ball as well and leaves a 
larger wake.  The larger the wake, the larger the drag.     

 

I think it would be foolish to add dimples or an orange peel bottom, unless you 
have the resources to model and measure the effect for a particular boat.  
Maybe adding some aft ruffness as the hull as turns inward, but this will 
strongly depend on the individual hull shape and likely have a positive effect 
at high water speeds (and a negative effect at low).   Of course, a great way 
to reduce one's wake is to foil.

 

Most may recall that dimples of a spinning golf ball help in another and bigger 
way by providing lift(i.e. aids in better flight).  The spinning dimples drag 
air towards incoming flow and drag air away from the flow on the opposite side 
causing a high/low pressure difference (i.e.  lateral lift force).   This 
latter effect has not yet been exploited by sailors.   Who knows, maybe we’ll 
see a spinning belted keel in the future driven by Kiwi’s pedal power.  

 

 

-
Paul E.

1981 C&C Landfall 38 
S/V Johanna Rose
Fort Walton Beach, FL

 

http://svjohannarose.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

 

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