I have been working through Fabio Fossati's "Aero-Hydrodynamics and the Performance of Sailing Yachts" and am encountering some challenges with...
When reviewing my paper on aerodynamic force from sail, which relies on the compressibility of air to explain the phenomenon of aerodynamic force,...
This theory will trigger the re-evaluation of every textbook that uses fluid dynamics or Newton's laws to explain how sailboats sail upwind and...
(#3 because I see two earlier posts with similar title, but different question.) We are all familiar with this diagram of the forces in the...
Marchaj's "Aero-Hydrodynamics of sailing" is widely quoted, but, I believe is a thinly disguised work of humorous fiction. Let me explain. In Part...
I'm looking for comments on Ignazio Viola's theory of aerodynamic force...vortices, circulation impulse theory. Are they relevant to the layman...
Almost without exception, books, magazine articles and web pages that discuss how a sailboat uses the wind to sail upwind, open with an...
