Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) of rigging and sails

Cape Horn Engineering works alongside sail designers to offer fast FSI calculations. Our system has been used in conjunction with the North Sails' set of tools. Large deformations are handled using an automatic re-meshing of the computational domain.

FSI deformation (colored by displacement) on A3 sail on Ericsson 3 (Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009)