Shape of a sail in a flow

DOI10.1063/1.863405zbMath0483.76022OpenAlexW2013798629MaRDI QIDQ3942576

Joseph B. Keller, Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck

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

two dimensionslift coefficientany 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)

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