Use the ‘Quick Lift Calculator’ to simulate
the Lift, Drag, Wetted surface area, Horsepower and other performance
variables for vee-hull designs and vee-pad designs.
To
estimate the Lift/Drag for a Pad-Vee hull, use the ‘Quick Lift Calculator’
first to calculate Lift/Drag for the VEE portion of wetted surface, then
use it again, with input details that describe the wetted PAD portion. The
addition of the two sets of results is the TOTAL Lift/Drag for the hull
configuration.
[Hint: Run this modeling method a few times, until your results
represent the (Total) available Horsepower of your Vee-Pad setup.]
Quick Lift Calculator - This 'quick' design calculation
shows hydrodynamic (water) lift and drag for planing surface, including
coefficients of lift & drag. Values from current design are initialized
just as starting inputs. Change to desired parameters to see changes in
Lift and CLift (coefficient of Water Lift), Drag and CDrag (coefficient of
Water Drag). Results are for information only, and do not change any input
or performance output results of your TBDP setup. |