[james.conger]

Those of you with an interest in sailing might find these 2D simulations interesting. The cases so far are limited to single sails in close-hauled situations. The simulations with two sails are in progress. The focus is in understanding what drives sail trim.

STL models are generated using Python. Mesh generation uses blockMesh and snappyHexMesh. simpleFoam is used for Reynolds averaged results. The sample utility extracts profile data that is post processed using Python to evaluate the net forces.

Link:
https://sites.google.com/site/sailcfd/

The fun part of this is validating the results using a real sailboat. Time to collect some more data...