Doms and water

[Hyakushiki]

I was curious if a Dom can hover over water?

[CYNICISM AT IT'S BEST]

well if it can hover of land I would say yes, I mean the thrust requirements wouldn't differ much would they?

[Hyakushiki]

I would think so too, the depth of the water might play a factor though.

[Nightwing03]

Hmm.... The Dom should be able to hover on water the thrust requirements would need to be stronger because water isn't solid. unless it's very shallow water.

[HalfDemonInuyasha]

IIRC, didn't a few mobile suits hover over the water during the attack on Jaburo in Zeta Gundam? (excluding the Gundam Mark II on the Flying Shield)

Or was that mostly just using a small bit of sustained thrust?

[Apache]

Hovering on water would be very hard, because the wanter is not solid I dont think a suit could hover over water wile its not moving. I do think it could hover wile moving tho.

[Ascension]

Hovercraft operate over water all the time. It shouldn't be a problem in the slightest if the operation of a Dom is at all like real-life hovercraft.

[Seraphic]

Maybe I can point something out that is helpful.

Not being quite sure of the true nature of the Dom's hover unit (meaning I am not personally certain), we have to look at it like this:

Does the hover unit have 1G of acceleration to keep the Dom off the ground?

If not, the hover units would work like this: as the Dom glides along the ground, the hover units thrusts downward onto the surface and create a bubble of higher pressure. The Dom then rides this high pressure pocket with little or no friction againt the ground. Solid ground gives good resistance to pressure, so this pocket is relatively easy to create.

In the case of water, the liquid surface would likely give way, to some degree, againt the high pressure, and so this frictionless pocket would be more difficult to create. In theory, the Dom can do it still as long as it can produce enough thrust to create the pocket. Still, does the hover unit have enough strength and finess for a job like that?


Eh...that may raise more questions than help...

Sorry.

[Oruma]

The Dom can hover over water. So can 08th MS Team's Type-71, and original Gundam's Big Tray land battleship.

[OpMegs]

The Dom can hover over water. So can 08th MS Team's Type-71, and original Gundam's Big Tray land battleship.

Except both of the latter examples utilize the "armored air cushion" that modern hovercraft use, except on a much larger scale.

[Dendrobium Stamen]

The problem I can see with hovering over water is that the thrust would displace the water on the surface - try blowing a hairdryer at a bowlful of water and see what happens. On the other hand, it wouldn't be too much of an issue; in deep water there's more water beneath to create a ground-effect cushion, and on shallow water there's the riverbed or seabed to push off of.

To be honest, I lack the grounding in physics to really have a better comprehension of how ground-effect works, and how the surface tension of the water would affect it and be affected by the Dom's thrust output. But I'd imagine hovering over water would be possible, but potentially more propellant-consuming, simply enough.

[Ryujin]

How a hovercraft works over water

It's all about the Law of Buoyancy and maintaining the air cushion, making it act just like a Nice Boat.

But what about the Dom's non-existent flexible skirt?

It's been demonstrated that high-pressure air jets can substitute for a flexible skirt by forming an 'air curtain.' More power is required, though, in order to generate the air curtain and to make up for the additional leakage in the air cushion (an air skirt's not as good as a solid skirt).

[ultimatenewtype]

IIRC, didn't a few mobile suits hover over the water during the attack on Jaburo in Zeta Gundam? (excluding the Gundam Mark II on the Flying Shield)

Or was that mostly just using a small bit of sustained thrust?

The MK II did not exactly "hover" over the water w/ the Flying Armor, but Kamille was using it more life a surfboard to glide across the water.

[RX 93 ZZ]

IIRC, didn't a few mobile suits hover over the water during the attack on Jaburo in Zeta Gundam? (excluding the Gundam Mark II on the Flying Shield)

Or was that mostly just using a small bit of sustained thrust?

I havent watched my DVD in a bit but i think the gouf flight type's that were attacking kamille when he came to that part did hover over the water briefly(cause you know....they kindah went boom after about 5 seconds along with a well placed shot to a tin cod heh heh )