Chapter Twenty-Four: A Bubble Initiated
That night, the helicopter seconded by the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense flew to Wangtian Province, when the first rays of sunlight slowly shone on the gate of Zhao Yili's house from the horizon, the Zhao family who had just gotten up was startled by the sound of the wind and the noise of the engine overhead, and then, Zhao Yili and his parents explained the reason for entering Beijing this time, after the Zhao family discussed, it was decided that Zhao Qing would accompany Zhao Yili into Beijing together, and soon, Zhao Qing, Chen Xiangning, and Zhao Yili boarded the helicopter, for the Zhao family, It was the first time to see a helicopter at such a close distance, this huge and mighty iron bird, which really left a deep impression on the sleepy-eyed Zhao Xiaoke, even if he grew up, after he was accustomed to traveling by plane, he still remembered this helicopter, so that later, Zhao's Oriental Investment Group always parked a private helicopter at the top of its own building, which is a later story, and will not be shown for the time being.
At nine o'clock in the morning, experts from all sides received a notice, and the large conference room was even more crowded; in addition to the experts who had already held a meeting last night, some of them were experts and scholars from the Institute of Electromagnetism and Thermonuclear Weapons Research Institute, and everyone was very curious about what kind of genius person had such a whimsical mind and was able to design such a delicate structural drawing.
Soon, the group entered the small hall of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, and the reason why they did not go to the conference room again was because they arrived almost at the same time with the helicopter, and some of the original two bomb fathers, and now almost all of them are old people with gorgeous hair, this time the matter of cavitation weapons, the impact seems to be far beyond Zhao Yili's psychological expectations, when Chen Xiangning introduced Zhao Qing's father and son and Chen Jianfang to each other, Chen Jianfang also did not have a general's shelf, and held Zhao Qing's hand tightly while shaking and gently patting the back of Zhao Qing's hand a few times, said with enthusiasm: "Lao Zhao, good, good, the good son you raised, is the future pillar of our country!" And when Zhao Qing, who was at a loss, was stunned, Chen Xiangning on the side interjected: "Old General Chen, people are about to become pillars now, okay, otherwise why are we so excited?"
"Yes, yes, yes," without caring about his daughter's robbery, Chen Jianfang pushed Zhao Yili to the front of the stage, and excitedly introduced to the experts in the audience: "Old experts, old comrades, please be quiet," and then said: "This young genius is the first creator of the blizzard torpedo, and also the designer of electromagnetic armor and electromagnetic pulse weapons - Comrade Zhao Yili!" ”
A group of experts and scholars in the audience were originally staring closely at the stage, and when they saw Zhao Qing's demeanor, they naturally didn't believe the designers of his two drawings, and it was actually a teenager under the age of 20 who was pushed to the stage by Deputy Director Chen, and they exclaimed that it was impossible, and they all let out exclamations of amazement and suspicion.
Looking at such a performance in the audience, Zhao Yili was not nervous, picked up the microphone, slowly walked to the edge of the rostrum, and said loudly: "Elders, I am the designer of the above weapons - Zhao Yili. ”
At this time, the nearest expert surnamed Wang asked, "Little friend, are you fifteen years old?" ”
With a smile, Zhao Yili replied politely: "You keep talking too much, I just turn 11 tomorrow, if you don't believe it, you can ask my dad." ”
The audience burst into laughter at this time, it seems that this kid has no signs of nervousness at all, and he is still very humorous, worthy of being a genius with wild ideas.
Chen Jianfang took over the conversation at this time and said to Zhao Yili: "Since I got the drawings yesterday, most of the military and weapons experts present have a lot of questions to ask you on the spot, so you can report your design ideas and concepts to the leaders!" ”
Zhao Yili naturally agreed.
So he said slowly: "You are all domestic and even international military experts and fathers, talking about weapons in front of you, in fact, it can be regarded as an axe, I can only be regarded as a theorist, but I have every reason to believe that with the wisdom and collective wisdom of all of you, you will definitely be able to turn this theory into reality, and I will introduce the design principle of the Buran torpedo." ”
Zhao Yili mentioned that the design concept of this torpedo actually came from the design inspiration triggered by a piece of soap. We all know that
Submarines, torpedoes, and other underwater weapons cannot run fast in the water because of the drag of the water. Water is 800 times denser than air, so the resistance of water is 800 to 1,000 times greater than that of air, which is also related to the density of water in different environments, such as freshwater, which is much smaller than that in seawater. Objects moving in a body of water experience less water pressure when their speed is high. When the water pressure decreases to equal the water vapor pressure, the water vaporizes into vacuoles. The formation of cavitation will not only change the flow pattern of water, reduce the propulsion efficiency of propellers, water pumps, and waterjets, but also reduce the speed of the voyage. At the same time, the cavitation bubbles will burst in places with high air pressure, creating a strong impact. The long-term effect of cavitation will also cause pits on the surface of the metal, and the metal body will be eroded, affecting its service life.
In our life, if we pay attention to observation, we can find that many scientific phenomena are closely related to the details of life, such as soap, if it is soaked in water and used soap, a lot of tiny bubbles will be formed on the outer surface of the soap, and the speed of movement in the water is much faster than the speed of a piece of dry soap, so what is the reason? After careful study, it is not difficult to find that these bubbles help the soap to overcome the resistance in the water, if there are bubbles that can completely wrap the object, it can greatly reduce the resistance of the water to the object, so that the object, such as a torpedo, travels at a higher speed in the water.
There will be a problem here, under the pressure of all parties when traveling, the bubble is easy to burst, so as a continuous moving torpedo, if you want to maintain this high speed, you need to constantly produce this bubble, that is, you must continue to generate bubbles to wrap yourself, you can produce supercavitation, that is, to complete the most important part of the design of supercavitating weapons.
So an expert asked: "So Xiao Zhao, which part of your design can continue to produce supercavitation?"
"In the design drawing, the eight symmetrical angle rocket ejectors at the tail of the Buran torpedo are the nozzles that produce cavitation bubbles in the torpedo itself" As for some other technologies and principles, I will not get the axe, I believe that all the experts here are much more professional than me, I still say that, I only help you overcome the most important part of technology research and development, and the other parts will depend on the experts to solve.
There were many experts at the scene who raised some doubts, and Zhao Yili was so bad that his throat was about to smoke, so he regarded this blizzard torpedo as the answer, so some experts asked about electromagnetic armor and electromagnetic weapons. "If the blizzard torpedo and electromagnetic weapons are the spears in our hands, then the electromagnetic armor, theoretically speaking, is a highly malleable shield, in my design drawings, there are detailed structural design ideas, but these are only semi-finished products, and the same as the blizzard torpedo, it is also necessary to rely on the research of everyone here to achieve it, after all, I just thought of this idea, if everyone asks me to make a finished product, boy, I might as well go home and fall into the mud. Right, guys? “
Under the organization of Chen Jianfang, the experts were divided into groups according to their specialties and decided to start the feasibility study immediately, so under the arrangement of Deputy Director Chen, Zhao Qing and his son settled down in the Yanjing Beijing Office, and Zhao Qing, who entered Beijing for the first time, naturally wanted to visit the great capital, so Chen Jianfang arranged for Chen Xiangning to accompany him, and two officials of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense to accompany the father and son to have a good walk in the capital.
Five days passed.