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Publications associées (8)
Numerical simulation of a sailing boat
In this work, various aspects concerning the numerical simulation of a sailing boat are investigated. The attention is focused on simulation of the free-surface, the fluid-structure interaction (FSI) between wind and sails, and the dynamics of the whole bo ...
EPFL2012Stochastic Control and Free Boundary Problems for Sailboat Trajectory Optimization
The topic of this thesis is the study of several stochastic control problems motivated by sailing races. The goal is to minimize the travel time between two locations, by selecting the fastest route in face of randomly changing weather conditions, such as ...
EPFL2012Numerical Simulation of Sailing Boats: Dynamics, FSI, and Shape Optimization
Alfio Quarteroni, Gianluigi Rozza, Nicola Parolini, Matteo Lombardi
The numerical simulation of free-surface flows around sailing boats is a complex topic that addresses multiple mathematical tasks: the correct study of the flow field around a rigid hull, the numerical simulation of the hull dynamics, the deformation of th ...
Springer2012Free Form Deformation Techniques for 3D Shape Optimization Problems
The purpose of this work is to analyse and study an efficient parametrization technique for a 3D shape optimization problem. After a brief review of the techniques and approaches already available in literature, we choose to use the Free Form Deformation p ...
2011L'Hydroptère: A story of a dream
Pascal Fua, Véronique Michaud, Mohamed Farhat, Mark Sawley, Michel Deville, Robin Amacher, Joël Cugnoni, Guillaume Bonnier, Luc Blecha, Olivier Braun, Antoine Sigg, Marc Oggier, Daniel Schmäh, Martin Calmon, Stéphane Dyen, Davy Moyon
In 2009, l’Hydroptère broke the symbolic barrier of 50 knots and became the world fastest sailing boat over both 500 meters and 1 nautical mile. This major achievement relied on the high skills of the sailing team but also on technical advances of the boat ...
2010L'HYDROPTERE: HOW MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH MAY HELP BREAK THE SAILING SPEED RECORD
Pascal Fua, Véronique Michaud, Mohamed Farhat, Mark Sawley, Michel Deville, Robin Amacher, Joël Cugnoni, Guillaume Bonnier, Luc Blecha, Olivier Braun, Antoine Sigg, Marc Oggier, Daniel Schmäh, Martin Calmon, Stéphane Dyen, Davy Moyon
In 2009, l’Hydroptère broke the symbolic barrier of 50 knots and became the world fastest sailing boat over both 500 meters and 1 nautical mile. This major achievement relied on the high skills of the sailing team but also on technical advances of the boat ...
RINA2010Mathematics in the Wind
Alfio Quarteroni, Nicola Parolini
In any sport or human endeavor, coaches regularly state “play to your strengths.” One might not guess that a land-locked, mountainous country like Switzerland would have strengths that would give them a chance at winning the oldest, most competitive sailin ...
2009Numerical simulation using RANS-based tools for America's Cup design
The application of Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations based on the Reynolds Averaged Navier- Stokes (RANS) equations to the design of sailing yachts is becoming more commonplace, particularly for the America's Cup. Drawing on the experience of the Ec ...
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