Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review
    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.)