Now that foiling is strongly in the Olympics (40% of the medals are for foilers, the foiling surfboard IQFoil and foiling kites), one questions...
Amazing nonsense by a leading sailmaker, with a slogan "scientific sailmaking": The Science Behind Your Sail Trim: Induced Drag | North Sails...
SYRF (Sailing Yacht Research Foundation) has published the results from its wide-light project at...
f_ZOO-kgmbA A free surface simulation of the 470 sailing at 5,2 kn in an "aquarium". In CFD, the space your model is placed in is called the...
These sails have great advantages in ease of depowering and configuring twist for the conditions. Rectangular mains have proven faster than...
Bumped on an interesting paper in Sailing Anarchy http://www.newfluidtechnology.com.au/THE_COANDA_EFFECT_AND_LIFT.pdf. The paper is about Coanda...
Our sails, designed with the help of computer simulation, won Gold & Bronze medals at the London Olympics - is that the ultimate validation for...
If you really want to push your N-S code, you could try to model the flow patterns on a real Frisbee. See for example, Potts, J.R. and Crowther,...
For the technically inclined, we've posted a new article about dynamic sail simulation at http://www.wb-sails.fi/news/DynaSim Mikko...
