Patent ID: 7226325

Claim:
The combination of a stabilizing device with a supercavitating vehicle that isolates re-entrant jet flows of liquid from its cavity comprising: a receiving means positioned on the supercavitating vehicle where the re-entrant jet flow impinges on the supercavitating vehicle: and an exit means joined to said receiving means for carrying said received re-entrant jet flow out of interference with the cavity, said exit means comprising: an exhaust nozzle extension extending aft from the aft of the supercavitating vehicle for carrying exhaust from the supercavitating vehicle; an exhaust nozzle joined to and in communication with the aft of the exhaust nozzle extension, said exhaust nozzle for carrying exhaust out of the supercavitating vehicle aft of the cavity; and a re-entrant jet nozzle positioned in communication between said receiving means and said exhaust nozzle extension for communicating said received re-entrant jet flow out of the supercavitating vehicle.