Here is the designer's site about it: 31m Solar Boat Turanor Planet Solar - Lomocean https://www.lomocean.com/projects/race-for-water The pic you...
We too are actually experimenting just at the intersection. Imho there is at least as much potential for comfort as for performance/efficiency....
Baltic Raven 111 is not a foiling yacht though, nor is the setup meant to work in the way it does in an America's Cup boat. As far as i...
Thank you so much Uli, that was the missing piece! I'll be back to my openFoam validation atempts soon, hopefully sharing a reference case and...
Hi, sorry for bumping up this old thread. I'm trying to validate my OpenFoam workflow against the SYRF wide-light. Unfortunately many of the...
Well for AI in boat design, of course there is nothing functional to be expected from a neuronal network like midjourney that only relates 2D...
Oh, i love that idea; Having run a solar installation company, i've been very impressed how these thin films keep out the humidity that would...
Thanks a lot for the insight !
Thanks Pafurijaz, didn't hear about that one, and i can see how the Parasolid kernel could make sense to produce accurate input geometry for CFD...
Hi Niklas, welcome ! Cool project, and i think you're getting some great feedback above. Only thing i thought may not be so evident is *how...
Hi, sorry i can't help you with the math of the optimisation problem, but i'd think of the angle of the extension as a kind of trim tab: The...
www.levidrives.com is Rudi's website in Germany. I contacted him in february 2021 via the contact form on the site and we exchanged a few short...
Yes it does, at least for the windows 50cm (Cat A) or 40cm (Cat B) above the waterline, in boats up to 24m. Multiple zones are defined, with...
Thanks to all, things become much clearer :)) The occurences i spotted in ISO 12215-6 (which references ISO 12216 for the thicknesses and...
Hi, has the op or someone else solved this in ISO 12216-2020 ? We are running into similar problems for an 18m motorsailor design and remain...
Hi Daniel ! *here's a starting point: OpenFOAM-9/tutorials/multiphase/interFoam/RAS/DTCHullMoving at master ยท OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-9...
On the CAD side Caeses or the Nemo plugin for Rhino/Grasshopper have propeller tools. From there you could just go about it subtractively with...
Volcanic activity has uncovered several sunk warships at Iwo Jima : [MEDIA]...
How about bribing a few magazines so they hype neoprene covers into fashion for yachts ? It works nicely on RIBs after all, hiding whatever ugly...
In that vein there is also earth.nullschool.net where you can overlay waves and currents, or look at the upper layers of the atmosphere. And it's...
