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Article: The right boat.(computing)(Brief Article)
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- Mechanical Engineering-CIME
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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EVERYONE ON THE CREW pulls together when they row. It's much the same for the engineers who design the boats.
As a manufacturer of racing-standard rowing boats, Filippi Boats of Donoratico, Italy, is using computational fluid dynamics to design what engineers hope will be winning boats next month at the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Using CFD to simulate a rowing boat is more complex than using the application to optimize a boat's hull design, which is a common use for the technology, according to Filippi Lido, who owns Filippi Boats. While most boats are propelled through the water at a constant rate, a rowing boat moves forward with the crew's ...