Shape of a sail in a flow

DOI10.1063/1.863405zbMATH Open0483.76022OpenAlexW2013798629MaRDI QIDQ3942576FDOQ3942576

J.-M. Vanden-Broeck, Joseph B. Keller

Publication date: 1981

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.863405

zbMATH Keywords

lift coefficienttwo dimensionsany angle of attackflexible, inextensible, and supported by mast and sheetlarge tensionshape of sail and flow around it

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jets and cavities, cavitation, free-streamline theory, water-entry problems, airfoil and hydrofoil theory, sloshing (76B10)

Cited In (3)

• Computation of aerodynamic coefficients for a flexible membrane airfoil in turbulent flow: A comparison with classical theory
• Aerodynamic coefficients and longitudinal stability of sail aerofoils
• Computation of unsteady laminar flow over a flexible two-dimensional membrane wing

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