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“Development of Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction Method for Yacht Sails”, by Friso Bergsma, Niels Moerke and Sebastiaan Zaaijer, Published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Innovation in High Performance Sailing Yachts (INNOV SAIL 2013), pp. 173-182, 26-28 June 2013, Lorient, France (ID No. 5396).
This paper presents a Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) method for sails based on the RANSE CFD software package FINE/Marine for the calculation of the pressure distribution on the sails, and the Nastran-based Finite Element Analysis (FEA) package FEMAP for the calculation of the deformation of the sails under load.
