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Tahara, Y., Masuyama, Y., Fukasawa, T., et al. (2012) Sail Performance Analysis of Sailing Yachts by Numerical Calculations and Experiments. In: Hector Juarez, L., Ed., Fluid Dynamics, Computational Modeling and Applications. InTech Open Access Publisher, 116-117.
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• TITLE: Study on a Comprehensive Energy-Saving Sail by CFD Method

  AUTHORS: Yanna Zheng, Dexing Liu, Hongwei An, Wenjia Sun, Tiaojian Xu

  KEYWORDS: Energy-Saving Sail, Wind Power Generation, Wind-Assisted Propulsion

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Fluid Dynamics, Vol.6 No.3, September 6, 2016

  ABSTRACT: A comprehensive energy-saving sail (CES) has been proposed in order to promote energy saving and emission reduction from shipping. Wind energy is harvested for propulsion and electrical generator at the same time by a unique structure of CES. A CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) code is verified by a case of arc wind sail, and it is used to simulate the pressure and velocity around the CES. The results show that the outlet velocity of air tunnel Vo and wind velocity Vi serve as an equation Vo ≈ 1.31Vi, which means the CES can effectively improve the conversion efficiency. In addition, it is found that Vo increases with the tunnel diameter to some extend over which it will keep almost constant.