A Simple Economic Design Strategy for Passenger Hovercrafts and Its Control Algorithm | ||||
| The International Conference on Electrical Engineering | ||||
| Article 45, Volume 6, 6th International Conference on Electrical Engineering ICEENG 2008, May 2008, Page 1-15 PDF (464.63 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/iceeng.2008.34284 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Mohammed A. Kotb, Adel.Rizk; Tarek H. Elsayed, AbdelRaheem M. Deghedy; Amr M. Ahmad, Elsayed Khadrogy | ||||
| Alexandria University, faculty of Engineering. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Abstract: Passenger hovercrafts present an attractive traveling choice. This is especially true for countries, like Egypt, which rely on tourism as a primary source of income. However, their widespread (and even existence) in many countries is limited due to the high cost as well as the sophisticated technological requirements of the hovercraft design process. These include the expensive prototype model which should be constructed to assess and validate the design calculations as well as the costs involved in constructing the hovercraft and operating it. Moreover, a careful control algorithm is needed to enhance the seakeeping performance of the hovercraft to assure passengers comfort and avoid sea-sickness. In the present paper a simple low cost design approach is proposed and implemented. The proposed strategy has been used to design a hovercraft traveling between Ras Mohammad and Khaleeg Neama in Sharm Elsheikh in Egypt. The proposed model building strategy successfully produces simple cheap prototype models without compromising the accuracy of the design assessment based on them. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Hovercraft; control; sea-keeping; Froude scaling; Reynold number | ||||
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