Sailing Aerodynamics
An explanation based on potential flow theory
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What you will learn
Basic vector addition applied to lift, drag and driving forces on a sailboat.
An understanding of how a sailboat is able to make progress sailing into the wind.
Understand the usefulness of potential flow theory in the analysis of airfoils or sails.
The role of Bernoulli's equation and circulation in explaining lift generation.
Understand the interaction between a mainsail and jib including concepts such as the "slot effect."
How a basic sailboat velocity prediction program (VPP) works.
Understand how, when sailing upwind, a boat's sail affects the apparent wind of a boat to its stern.
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