Focused on the assessment method for dynamic behavior of the skirts of an air cushion
vehicle (ACV), this paper proposes a hybrid analytic-FEM approach, within which the self …

Dynamically stable traveling periodic waves are notoriously difficult to realize
experimentally. Manifestations of such waves inherently become unstable in any dispersive …

The air cushion vehicle (ACV) is the advanced marine vehicle that provides not only
excellent performance on rough surfaces but also the high speed that other conventional …

The transverse stability of air cushion vehicles (ACVs) hovering over the rigid ground has
always been the challenging problem involving cushion aerodynamics and flexible skirt …

A highly non-linear model for the dynamics behavior of Air Cushion Vehicles (ACV) is
presented. In this model the compressible Bernoulli's equation, the Newton's second law of …

This paper investigates the cushion lift dynamics of a polar hovercraft. The motion of the
flexible skirt on the ice surface is simplified and a mathematical model is established to study …

The pressure responsiveness property of a skirt-cushion system, which is closely related to
the overall performance of Air Cushion Vehicles (ACVs), has always been the difficulty and …

The mechanical properties of an air cushion vehicle (ACV) skirt cloth, which is a nonlinear
rubber‐coated fabric, are tested on a Series IX 4465 electron tension machine manufactured …

The formulation and experimental validation of a mathematical model of the nonlinear pitch-
heave dynamics of an uncompartmented, segmented skirt cushion system for an air cushion …

In the thesis, initial design of an Air Cushion Vehicle (ACV) is performed with the expert
system and its skirt system is further optimized with the genetic algorithm. Both the expert …