THE FITTING METHOD FOR SAILS AND THE COMPUTATION OF WIND PRESSURE CENTER POINT

Authors

  • Jianliang Li
  • Yong Jiang
  • Jinya Xu

Keywords:

sailboat, sectional fitting, constrained, numerical computation

Abstract

In this study, a sectional fitting method with some constraint was developed for designing the shape of sail in the moving sail boat system. Subsequently, the center point of wind pressure on Laser class sail is calculated numerically.

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Issue

18 International Symposium on Biomechanics in Sports (2000)

Section

Methodology

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