<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Jon,<div>It's a simple question, but there is no simple answer. For PSUBS situations though, whatever answer you get is irrelevant.</div><div><br></div><div>Even 1 pound of additional displacement from air in the MBT will cause you to rise, just not very fast. Drag is a V^2 relationship, so in order to go twice as fast, you would need four times the buoyancy. In shallow depths, the air is also rapidly expanding, so if you're interested in time-to-surface you may have to account for that as well.</div><div><br></div><div>In the ocean there is a thermocline somewhere around 300 or 400 feet. The density change of the water is enough to notably slow, or even stop ascent or descent.</div><div><br></div><div>For extremely large, or extremely deep-diving vehicles, you begin noticing either increasing or decreasing total net vehicle buoyancy depending on if the hull is more or less compressible than the surrounding seawater.</div><div><br></div><div>In the end, the most practical thing to do is to add or vent air to obtain and maintain the speed that you want. Like Vance says, watch the bubbles. That answer isn't satisfying enough if you're sitting at 300ft without enough weight to go deeper, or if you're sitting at the drawing board trying to size a VBT or an appropriate amount of weight for an ascent/descent dropweight system.</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks, </div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">-River J. Dolfi<div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:rdolfi7@gmail.com" target="_blank">rdolfi7@gmail.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 2:31 PM via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Send Personal_Submersibles mailing list submissions to<br>
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Jon, are you asking about how to correlate buoyancy condition with vertical<br>
speed through the water? IE "If I drain 50lb from the VBT and make myself<br>
50lb positively buoyant, how long will it take me to reach the surface<br>
600ft up?"<br>
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You would have to know the drag coefficient and a reference area of the sub<br>
in question in the up and down direction. Usually that kind of number is<br>
determined with fancy CFD or wind tunnel testing. I've got a couple data<br>
points about buoyancy vs vertical speed that I could crunch to get an<br>
approximate drag coefficient appropriate for small submersibles, then you<br>
could calculate the speed for any sub of a given cross sectional area.<br>
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Complicated. Just watch the bubbles. 60 feet per minute, give or take.Vance<br>
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Jon, are you asking about how to correlate buoyancy condition with vertical speed through the water? IE "If I drain 50lb from the VBT and make myself 50lb positively buoyant, how long will it take me to reach the surface 600ft up?"<br>
You would have to know the drag coefficient and a reference area of the sub in question in the up and down direction. Usually that kind of number is determined with fancy CFD or wind tunnel testing. I've got a couple data points about buoyancy vs vertical speed that I could crunch to get an approximate drag coefficient appropriate for small submersibles, then you could calculate the speed for any sub of a given cross sectional area.<br>
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I posted a link where you could see the segment I did on ?What?s it,s worth ? on the A & E channel that showed my sub but didn?t hear any feedback so not sure it actually got posted. The producers edited a half hour down to about 5 minutes so my plug of our group unfortunately ended up not making the final cut.<br>
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Sorry, I was not very clear, let me rephrase; you are at 300 feet depth.? How much water displacement (generally) is necessary in the MBT to get the sub heading to the surface at say, 30-60 feet per minute???<br>
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Jon,? ? ? I think you're better off dealing with the hyrdrodynamics of the hull shape and nose shape and sufficient propulsion rather than try to gain any small amount of drag reduction you would gain from getting the sub higher in the water .? ?That said,? the ww2 subs were able to go faster on the surface, but was that because they had the benefit of the powerful diesels on the surface?? ?<br>
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Assuming perfect neutral buoyancy, how much MBT water displacement is needed to get a sub or particular size/weight moving topside at a reasonable speed?<br>
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No River, nothing that complicated.? Just curious if there is some formula or rule-of-thumb regarding how much displacement is required to get a sub started to the surface, from a specified depth.? Assuming perfect neutral buoyancy any change to positive would theoretically start the process but in a practical sense some forces could counteract a minor change in positive buoyancy.? Obviously it doesn't require 100% total displacement of the MBT, but will one pound do it?? two?? three?? Just looking for a reasonable estimate, if one exists.<br>
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Jon, are you asking about how to correlate buoyancy condition with vertical speed through the water? IE "If I drain 50lb from the VBT and make myself 50lb positively buoyant, how long will it take me to reach the surface 600ft up?"<br>
You would have to know the drag coefficient and a reference area of the sub in question in the up and down direction. Usually that kind of number is determined with fancy CFD or wind tunnel testing. I've got a couple data points about buoyancy vs vertical speed that I could crunch to get an approximate drag coefficient appropriate for small submersibles, then you could calculate the speed for any sub of a given cross sectional area.<br>
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