Bulbous Bow at Aircraft Carrier
Hi, I would like to know what´s inside that gigantic bulbous bow You can see on fotos of the new aircraft carrier "Gerald F. Ford". I know that the reason for such a bulbous bow is some fluid mechanic...
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Hi,Its my understanding that a "hydrodynamic" type bulb would likely be empty, but I don't know for certain abot this ship. I believe that the US Navy did do a study a few years ago looking at trying...
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Could it "just" be for seawater ballast as a part of the Fore Peak Tank?http://i.ytimg.com/vi/XdVS5wqzy6w/0.jpg
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The bulb is almost always part of the forepeak seawater ballast tank. And with today's practice of not connecting fuel and sea water ballast systems (as opposed to the old days when the systems could...
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add a bulbous bow to a DDG-51 class destroyer in addition to the sonar dome. I think the USN has tried to get the sonar dome to double as the bulbous bow, but it hasn't worked.
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Thank you for the answers. I can´t post the photos, but following are two links. The first leads to a german news magazine:http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/ And here´s a photo on...
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"I´ve never seen such a gigantic bulbous bow. " It's not all that different from those on the more recent oil tankers. Those you can easily see the tops of when the ship is running light.
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The bulbs also by maritime considerations cannot protrude TOO far ahead of the bow, as in a collision, they'd function as a ram, holing a victim ship and greatly increasing the risk of sinking it. Too...
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I have seen some pretty large bulbous bows on coal ships I would have to agree that the bow is just in an awkward position
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It isn't a good place for a sonar, wave breaking noise and slapping are too likely I suspect. We used to tow our sesimic arrays 10-30m under the surface in part to get away from surface noise.
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daetaku wrote:The bulbs also by maritime considerations cannot protrude TOO far ahead of the bow, as in a collision, they'd function as a ram, holing a victim ship and greatly increasing the risk of...
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