Experimental determination of sail performance and blockage corrections

SNAME 13th Chesapeake Sailing Yacht Symposium, CSYS 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 245-259

  Ranzenbach, Robert ^a   Mairs, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

YACHTS;

BLOCKAGE CORRECTION; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; FORCE COEFFICIENTS; FORCE PREDICTIONS; GOVERNING BODIES; MULTI-STAGES; OLYMPICS; PERFORMANCE; SAIL FORCE; UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND;

WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 84892053420     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5957/CSYS-1997-016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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