On the profit of optimizing the fin-keel of a yacht sailing close to wind

DOI10.1007/BF00052543zbMath0393.76013OpenAlexW2491006495MaRDI QIDQ1252102

A. K. Wiersma

Publication date: 1978

Published in: Journal of Engineering Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00052543

zbMATH Keywords

Fin-KeelLinearized TheoryOptimizingThrustYacht Sailing Close to Wind

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jets and cavities, cavitation, free-streamline theory, water-entry problems, airfoil and hydrofoil theory, sloshing (76B10)

Cites Work

• On the maximum thrust of a yacht by sailing close to wind
• A doublet-lattice method for calculating lift distributions on oscillating surfaces in subsonic flows.
• A generalized slender-body theory for fish-like forms

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