Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / In this thesis results of a computational and experimental investigation of the aerodynamic characteristics of a sail section used in windsurfing sails are presented. State-of-the-art computational methods (panel, direct boundary layer, viscous-inviscid interaction, Euler, and steady/unsteady Navier-Stokes) were used to predict the aerodynamic loading and stall characteristics. These predictions were found to be in satisfactory agreement with tuft and smoke flow visualization experiments carried out in the Naval Postgraduate School Low speed wind tunnel at a Reynolds number of 800,000. Further all computational work was completed on the Silicon Graphics Indigo workstation to demonstrate that only modest computer facilities will be necessary for these methods to migrate to the field of sail design.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nps.edu/oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/23577 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Avila, Matthew R. |
| Contributors | Platzer, M. F., Hebbar, S. K., Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| Publisher | Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School |
| Source Sets | Naval Postgraduate School |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. As such, it is in the public domain, and under the provisions of Title 17, United States Code, Section 105, it may not be copyrighted. |
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