Comparison Final Velosity Between Sailing Boat With a Rigid Airfoil and Cloth Sail

Abstract

The powering requirement of a ship is one of the most important aspects of naval architecture. Traditionally, ships have been tested for hull resistance using hydrodynamic tank testing. But it is very time consuming, expensive, and has inherent scaling errors. Because of these reasons, today many vessels are sold on the market without any model testing. Another set of design tools are Computational Fluid Dynamics and parametric prediction. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes are not yet wholly proven in its accuracy. Parametric predictions contain acquired data for a specific family of hull forms and use key hull parameters to evaluate a particular design. This tool is absolutely validating. In this work, parametric predictions tool has been used for velocity prediction of sailing boats and experimental equation has been used for hydrodynamic and aerodynamic calculation. However in this work from experimental equation from Delft towing tank has been used for hydrodynamic calculation but it is acceptable for more boats and ships. In this work velocity is predicted for a sailing boat with one rigid airfoil and sailing boat with cloth sailing. Rigid airfoil can control the velocity of boat. The maximum velocity occurred in 70 to 120 degree angle of courses. In Final stage, the velocity of boat is compared between sailing boat with rigid airfoil and cloth sail.