Abstract
Authors: Giovanni Lombardi, Joseph Katz, Maurizio Foresta
Keywords: rigid sail, America's Cup, aerodynamics, multi-element airfoil, sailboat racing
Most sailboats use flexible sails to generate the aerodynamic propulsive force. However, for the 2013 America's Cup sailboat competition, rigid sails were specified. These sails resemble an airplane's wing and traditional wing-design tools (computational and experimental) were used to study the performance of the multi-element sail system. The first objective of this study was to identify the possible variables affecting the aerodynamic performance of such sails.
Conference/Journal: Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects part B, International Journal of Small Craft Technology (2013)
Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects part B, 155(part B1), B13-B24, International Journal of Small Craft Technology, 138
