Numerical Study of the Aeroelasticity of Sails
A. Leone, and L. Teresi
Università “Roma Tre”, Roma
Flow field around a 2D sail
The aim of our paper is to present a simple, yet reliable, method for parametric sail design under many different upwind sailing conditions.
By using the script language, we can generate a family of sail shapes, and then investigate both aerodynamics and structural issues.
We implement our simulations using the Incompressible Navier-Stokes mode coupled with models from the Structural Mechanics Module of COMSOL Multiphysics.