YRU-Kiel presents at INNOV'SAIL 2010
The Second International Conference on Innovation in High Performance Sailing...
[more]YRU-Kiel at the CSYS
The well known Chesapeake Sailing Yacht Symposium (CSYS) will take place for the 19th time in March...
[more]YRU-Kiel Study on 50 m Unconventional Cruising Trimaran
YRU-Kiel recently signed a contract with a south German company on the development of an...
[more]YRU-Kiel Ressources
Twist-Flow-Wind-Tunnel
- Open jet wind tunnel
- Wind speed from 0 – 11 m/s
- Mast span 1.80 m
- Adjustable apparent wind angles
- Yacht model with stepper motor trim controls
- Six degree of freedom force balance
- LDA and CTA for flow field and turbulence measurements
- 3D-photogrammetry for sail flying shape measurements
Open Water Circulation Tank
- Hot water circulation tank for model size up to L=2m, Volume=60l
- Max. velocity 2m/s
- Reynolds-number for ship model testing: Rn <= 4*106
- Laser-Doppler-Anemometry for appendage measurements
- Six degree of freedom force balance
- Workshop for model making and customization
CFD-Resources
- 96 node LINUX compute cluster
- High performance workstations for pre-/postprocessing
- Various RANSE codes: Ansys CFX,Adapco Comet, in-House
research code - Vortex Lattice code for wing flow analysis
- Seakeeping analysis software,dedicated to sailing yachts and foil-equipped ships
- Velocity prediction programs: In-House AVPP, WUPTIA WinDesign, IMS
- Secondary software: gridding software, surface modellers, ship line drawing software