Energizing Process for Levitating the Boat Vehicle Attached with Air Vessels at Static Conditions: A Novel Method of Waterway Transportation

Abstract

Levitation generally refers to the force that resists gravitational force in any particular direction. This article postulates an experimental setup that is used to describe the application of hydrostatic force for developing a new mode of hovering-based levitation system. This research work explores how a new hovering process can be created with the help of a water vehicle attached to the air vessels. With this hovering process, it is likely to test that the lateral force of the water acts on the bottom of the boat vehicle and creates a new levitation system. By minimizing the resistance forces such as rolling, aerodynamic and skin friction resistances, it is possible to ensure that new modes of transportation systems such as Maglev and Hyperloop were introduced. The relationship between the amount of water in the open rectangular channel, the draft value of the boat vehicle, the volume of air vessels attached and the payload is estimated. In both boat vehicle models with and without air vessels, changes in buoyancy, changes in draft value and changes in the momentum of the water beneath the vessel are experimentally tested and compared. This comparative study confirms the formation of levitation on a boat vehicle to which air vessels are attached. Thus, with a boat model attached to the open-bottomed air vessels, the hovering process is tested and demonstrated how much the levitating force developed at static conditions. In the future, this method can be used as a low-cost levitation method in the transportation sector.