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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
David B. Coakley, Hyattsville, MD (US);
Richard K. Knutson, Germantown, MD (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F15D 1/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F15D 1/10 ;
Abstract
Components of a flexible fairing shroud are attached adjacent their leading edges to bushings through which the fairing shroud is angularly displaced about a protectively surrounded structure exposed to a fluid medium. Inflow of the fluid medium is thereby accommodated in a direction resulting in inflation of the fairing shroud to a desired streamline shape established and maintained between leading and trailing edges during flow of the fluid medium to substantially reduce vibrations otherwise induced by such flow.