Building Hovercraft
Building Hovercraft
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Is there a formula I can use to determine how deep my craft will purge the
water with a specific load?
water with a specific load?
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RE: Building Hovercraft
There is no specific 'formula' to calculate , how much water a body will displace.
By Arch. principle for a floating body
weight of the body = weight of water displaced.
if you know the weight of the body, you can calculate how much volume it displaces due to its own weight
volume displaced x density of fluid= weight
if you take a box of length=l, breadth=b and depth=d for example, it will displace a volume of l x b x d , when it is fully immersed.
If for unit depth it displaces l x b, you can see that it immerses (volume of water displaced)/(lxb)
If it is a complex body, you have to do some integration to findout the volume it displaces at each value of d.
Hope this will answer your question