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Hydrofoil sailboat model. But one day I decided to look up Hydrofoils on the web and I came across the OU-32. The airfoils above the water the sails create power to drive the sailboat forward. As the boats speed increases the hydrofoils create lift.

The half-span of a single hydrofoil was modeled using symmetry to investigate tip vortices and winglet performance. This is footage of the CAD drawings as they evolved during the design phase of Valkyrie a hydrofoil sailboat. Rather than being based on autogyro principles the Hydrocopter model consisted of four powered rotor like disks mounted on inclined vertical shafts.

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Fascinated with how a boat like that could work I bought Kotaro Horiuchis book Locus of a. Analysis of Eppler 420 and Eppler 396 hydrofoil models at low to intermediate Reynolds number using ANSYS Fluent 140s inviscid laminar and Spalart-Allmaras turbulent models. This led to the construction of the prototype.

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