Yacht Design

This page is intended as a recopilation of useful sites for my own work, so it is far from completeness. Though, if you find any error or you have any comment or suggestion, please e-mail me.
You can take a look to my home page too.

Yacht Design

• Hydromechanics
  • Naval Surface Warfare Center, Hydromechanics Directorate
    Technical Report Database ON LINE
    
  • Norwegian Institute of Technology, Poseidon Hydrodynamics Web
  • Maritime Research Institute Netherlands, MARIN Wageningen

• Airfoils
  • Martin Hepperle, Design and Analysis of Airfoils
    Analyse an Airfoil ON LINE
  • Marco Colombini, Irrotational Plane Flows of an Inviscid Fluid ON LINE LECTURE
  • Jonas Larsson, NACA Airfoils
  • Jens Trapp, NACA 4 Digits Airfoils ON LINE
  • Gregory Payne, Foil 1.2, NACA Foils Drawing Program for Mac
  • Michael Selig, UIUC Airfoil Data Site
  • Hanley Innovations, VisualFoil, Airfoil analysis and comparation

• Boat Design Software
  • Hull Design
    • AeroHydro Inc., MultiSurf, for Windows
    • New Wave Systems, Nautilus, for Windows
    • Autoship Systems Corp., Autoship, for Windows
    • SENER Ingenieria y Sistemas, FORAN, for Windows and UNIX
    • DEFCAR Ingenieros, DEFCAR, for Windows
    • Vacanti Yacht Design, Prolines, for Windows
    • Branko Barbic, LinDES, for Windows
    • Proteus Engineering, FastYacht & FastShip, for Windows
    • Gregg Carlson, Boat Hulls, for Windows
    • Eric Collard, HullCAO, for Windows
    • P. Pavie, Ciol-MV-II, for Windows
    • Robert Lainé, CARENE 40 & 50, for Windows (hard chine hulls)
    • Emmanuel Vilmin, Shape 3D, for Windows (windsurf boards)
    • Gower Software, DAT Designer, for Windows (windsurf boards)
    • Blue Peter Marine, Hullform, for MS-DOS and Windows
    • Bruce Winterbon, Boat 0003, for MS-DOS
    • Joe Dominic, BtDzn, for MS-DOS (needs EasyCAD/FastCAD program)
    • BaseLine Technology, BaseLine II, for MS-DOS
    • Kockums Computer Systems (KCS), Tribon, for Windows and UNIX Workstations
    • Formation Design Systems, MaxSurf, for Macintosh and Windows
    • Humberto Martínez, SDN, for Macintosh and Windows

  • Velocity Prediction Programs
    • Peter Schwenn, FastYacht V++, for Windows
    • AeroHydro Inc., AHVPP/1, for PC

  • Sail Simulation and Design
    • WB-Sails Ltd, MacSail, for Mac
    • Robert Lainé, SailCut, for Windows
    • Gregg Carlson, SailForm, for Windows

  • Structural Design and Analysis
    • Graphic Magic Ltd., MultiFrame, for Macintosh

• Commercial and Miscelaneous
  • AYRS, Amateur Yacht Research Society
  • Fiona Sinclair, Yacht Research Homepage
  • Boat Owners World
  • BoatBuilding Community
  • RMN, The Recreational Marine Navigator
    Design Forum
    Vendors and Products
  • AboarD, Boats and Yachts Market Ltd.
  • Data Boat International
  • Blue Peter Marine Systems
  • Chris Mitchell, Applied Engineering Services (AES), Mast and Rigging Designers
  • Mark Mills, Performance Yacht Design
  • Steve Baker, Yacht Designs
  • Piotr Czabanski, Database of Crew, you may search or add yourself
  • Americas Cup 2000
  • International Standards for Computerised Ship Data Exchange
  • Cedric Savineau, Speed Sailing
  • Dave Culp, Speed Sailing
  • The R/C Sailing Infocenter
  • The International R/C Warship Combat Club
  • David Merriman, R/C Submarines
  • Windjammer Sails: Vectran Press Release
  • C-Tech Boating Software and Accessories
  • Boaters.com Homepage

• News Groups
  • rec.boats.building, all about boatbuilding related topics.
  • rec.boats.racing, yachts racing related topics.
  • Boats FAQs, rec.boats.* frecuently asked questions (FAQ) archive.

Computational Fluid Dynamics

• Codes
  • Gerald Recktenwald, Quick'n'Simple (QnS), 2D CFD for Mac

  • CHAM: Concentration, Heat & Momentum Ltd
    Phoenics Shareware Page
    Phoenics Shareware v1.4
    
  • South Bay Simulations Inc., SPLASH
  • AMI: Analytical Methods Inc.
    VSAERO, Potential Flow
    WHIP, Wave/Hull Interaction Program (extension to VSAERO)
    
  • AeroLogic
    Loftsman/P, Lofting Program
    CMARC, Potential Flow (like VSAERO)
    
  • NASA COSMIC, Software Collections by Topics
    Aerodynamics
    Computer Fluid Dynamics
    Plot3D Package
    Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow
    

• Finite Elements
  • Robert Schneiders, Finite Element Mesh Generation
  • Jonathan Richard Shewchuk, Triangle: A Two-Dimensional Quality Mesh Generator
  • Ian MacPhedran, Public Domain Finite Elements Programs
  • Chalmers University of Technology, FEMLAB Home Page

• Organizations and Personal Pages
  • Jonas Larsson, CFD Online, root of CFD resources in the net
  • University of Alberta, Fluid Flow Links
  • University of Cranfield, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Combustion Modelling
  • NASA, Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Systems Division (NAS)
    Technical Reports ON LINE
    
  • University of New South Wales, Mathematics Fluid Dynamics Group
    Papers an Publications ON LINE
    
  • Luc Bauwens, CFD Society of Canada
  • Tony Roberts, Article and Document Database ON LINE

Other Interesting Sections

• SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  Journals on Mathematics and Computing ABSTRACTS
• Ilana Stern, Scientific Data Format Information FAQ

This page has been accessed times since October 29, 1996
Last updated by Humberto Martínez on June 10, 1999