ESI is a sponsor of INNOV’SAIL 2010 and will contribute to the conference scope on different aspects of yacht design with a presentation providing engineers with knowledge and insights on innovative design for performance.
Entitled ‘Simulation-Based Design for High Performance Composite Sailboats’, the paper will be presented by Paul Groenenboom, Senior Physicist at ESI, on July 1 at 5 pm.
Some innovative approaches to the design of high performance sailboats use composite panels and subcomponents with high strength-to-weight ratios. Strength and survivability considerations for such boats must account for the cumulative effect that irregular and often violent wave impacts have upon them. There is not only a need to reliably quantify the fluid-structure interaction effect of the boat with waves in heavy seas, but also the design and structural assessment of the boat, which should be based on the as-built shape and mechanical composition of the composite material sub-components rather than on some idealized model. Achieving this requires a unified approach. The presentation will highlight the benefits to be gained through the use of draping and infusion simulation during the manufacturing of a composite material subcomponent. It will also look into the assessment through simulation of the strength, vulnerability and survivability of the boat as well as modeling the interaction of the boat with waves in heavy seas using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) feature of ESI’s Virtual Performance Solution suite of solvers.
The paper concludes with a value chain for manufacturing and performance using efficient computational tools like Multi-Model Coupling (MMC) to help achieve large scale and industrial level simulations.
Delegates will also be able to find out more about Virtual Performance Solution and ESI’s Composites Simulation Suite for the marine industry by visiting ESI’s booth in the exhibition area.