A Volumetric Approach to Wake Reduction: Design, Optimization, and Experimental Verification

Table 2

Results summary and comparison. Note that the physical location of the PVC cylinder cap caused masking errors in the experimental data, resulting in anomalous or unnecessarily absent readings near the geometry.

	Uncloaked sphere	Cloaked sphere	Cloak effect	Uncloaked cylinder	Cloaked cylinder	Cloak effect
	0.18	0.27	+52%	0.027	0.072	+160%
	0.22	0.24	+8%	0.048	0.054	+12%
DWW difference	17%	16%		42%	34%
	1.9	1.3	−31%	1.4	1.3	−10%
	1.8	1.5	−16%	1.6	1.2	−25%
MLW difference	5%	14%		8%	10%