Dynamic tornado teardown system

Abstract

A system for preventing damage from tornados and other harmful naturally occurring weather phenomenon uses multiple jet devices which are distributed in a ground array to produce man made tornados. The man made tornados function to divert or stop the natural tornados. Explosive devices can also be used with the man made tornados to stop the natural tornados. The power of the man made tornados and explosives required to tear down the natural tornados can be determined by calculating the threshold energies of the natural tornados. By determining the energy requirements, process for stopping natural tornados can be optimized.

Description

CLAIM OF PRIORITY [0001] This application is a Continuation-In-Part of copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10 / 356,111, filed Feb. 3, 2003 (Atty. Docket No. 730.02), entitled “TORNADO DYNAMIC TEARDOWN SYSTEMS”; which IS incorporated by reference herein.FIELD OF INVENTION [0002] This invention relates to meteorology, and, more specifically, to methods for the teardown of disastrous weather conditions, such as tornados, to protect human beings and their property. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] A substantial amount of research has been conducted to develop a way to control disastrous weather patterns that include a suction vortex, or suction funnel, or funnel such as a Tornado, Twister, Dust Devil, Cyclone and Waterspout. However, because these weather systems have huge amounts of energy, none of the prior art methods for combating these systems has been feasible. [0004] These weather systems destroy millions of dollars of property and kill hundreds of human beings every year...

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Benefits of technology

[0012] (c) To provide a strategy for attacking the tornado at the funnel which is the weakest link between two isolated systems. The funnel is just a short path for the high energy of the cloud base to release its energy to the ground environment by means of sucking up everything from the lower energy of ground environment. Any way to choke up the funnel will interrupt their connection and stop the damage of disaster weather systems, which include of course tornados.

[0013] (d) To provide an optimized way to stop a tornado that the physical model presents there are two thresholds in a disaster weather system: 1. The higher energy threshold. When the energy of a cloud base exceeds the higher energy threshold, the disaster weather system starts to form a funnel. 2. The lower energy threshold. When the energy of a disaster weather system is less than the threshold, the funnel disappears. Moreover, the disaster weather system model describes the formation of the funnel consumes a huge quantity of energy. Because it takes long time for the cloud base to accumulate enough energy to form a funnel again in certain period and a certain area, a physical choke in a funnel for a short a period of time is enough to destroy the enclosure of the disaster weather system.

[0014] (e) To provide a quantitative analysis of the energy required stopping a tornado. There is high Reynolds Number turbulent core flow inside a tornado funnel. The diameter of the core flow is only one third of the diameter of the funnel. The core flow diameter is only 30 feet to a couple of hundreds of feet in diameter. Because the core diameter of the core flow is fairly small, clogging the core flow for a short period of time without damaging the environment is feasible and practicable. The energy used to break the enclosure of a disaster weather system is small and the energy mechanism used would be affordable.

[0017] (h) According to the presented physical model, to provide many flexible ways to deal with different disaster weather systems in order to protect metropolitan, civilian and important facility areas.

Problems solved by technology

The suction funnel is just a connection that connects the two isolated systems together and results in a single enclosure disaster system.

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