Hi, I'm still very part time on that topic. I still believe that the target is achievable. However, because of my lack of academic knowledge on...
I fully agree with you Skyak. I don't focus yet on sailcloth stretch. However this is an embedded feature of the elements used in the FEM tool....
Thanks Mikko for the link to the above thread. I went through it and learned several interesting things: the important relation about this head...
I just had a look, ans it seems to me a GUI for Openfoam, and handle the CFD part. From the website, it does not looks to address the Structure...
Update about the slow process... I have notr given-up but this is really tough for me. MBDyn certainly can do the job, but the lack of pre and...
I don't really understand the benefits of that "sweep". For fore-aft = rake, I had looked at the wings design and the "sweep" was interesting at...
Dear Mikko, Your post looks thought provoking to me, as it goes against the general idea that fatheads sails are the norm now. Your experience...
Thanks for the paper Remmlinger, This is a good point to take into account. For the sails I'm interested it, there is a fabric luff pocket in...
Thanks Steve, and also others, for the responses to my question. I'm comforted by the above statement that a key driver is the de-powering of the...
One sentence I picked about the "Square top" in Tom Speer text (from Minimum Induced Drag of Sail Rigs and Hydrofoils...
Thanks all for the provided information, So the Square Top results from: - the optimization of the sail planform for some criteria, - the trapeze...
Thanks geo2 for the information. Unfortunatly I'm neither a student nor an academic. 3 year trial still looks appealing (more than 3 or 6 month)...
Thanks Erwan and Dogcavalry four your answers. So this is about limiting the drag and lift distribution. I have looked at Tom Speers documents on...
Catamarans, trimarans, landyacht, windsurf have square top sails. I wonder how can be determined the optimum sail square head width. Especially in...
