bulb design of a sailing boat

[nico]

What ressources are available to a student to assist in the bulb design of a sailing boat.

( free software on the net, doc, etc...)

Thank you

[tspeer]

Look for Strojnick's "Laminar Aircraft Design" and "Laminar Aircraft Aerodynamics" He discusses designing a laminar flow fuselage by taking a 2D airfoil section to the 3/2 power.

Also Ralph Carmichael (ralph@pdas.com) publishes a book on laminar flow bodies - he did much of the original research on low-drag axisymmetric shapes.

http://www.iag.uni-stuttgart.de/luft..._7_96_lutz.pdf

http://www.pdas.com/

http://www.aoe.vt.edu/aoe/faculty/Ma...CAtxtAppF.html