2021-07-05

physics-of-sailing literature

I sucked it up and read a bunch of the physics-of-sailing literature today (and on the weekend). Some of the books very correctly attribute the forces on sails and wings to momentum transport. Some of the books very incorrectly attribute them to differences of pressure calculable from Bernoulli effect alone. But in reading it all, I did come to the conclusion that no-one is working in precisely the space we want to work, so I do think there is a (correctly scoped) paper to write. Of course even if there weren't, I couldn't stop myself!

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