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Fluid Structure Interaction of Yacht Sails in the Unsteady Regime

Chapitre d'ouvrage scientifique
Author
AUGIER, Benoit
ccBOT, Patrick
13094 Institut de Recherche de l'Ecole Navale [IRENAV]
ccHAUVILLE, Frederic
DURAND, Mathieu
233702 K-Epsilon

URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10985/12555
Date
2013

Abstract

The dynamic Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) of yacht sails submitted to a harmonic pitching motion is numerically investigated to address both issues of aerodynamic unsteadiness and structural deformation. The model consists in an implicit dynamic coupling algorithm between a Vortex Lattice Method model for the aerodynamics and a Finite Element Method model for the structure dynamics. It is shown that the dynamic behaviour of a sail plan subject to yacht motion clearly deviates from the quasi-steady theory. The aerodynamic forces oscillate with phase shifts with respect to the motion. This results in hysteresis phenomena, which show aerodynamic equivalent damping and stiffening effects of the unsteady behaviour. The area of the hysteresis loop corresponds to the amount of energy exchanged by the system and increases with the motion reduced frequency and amplitude. In the case of a rigid structure, the aerodynamic forces oscillations and the exchanged energy are lower than for a flexible structure.

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