Modalità sperimentali e ricerche in corso su imbarcazioni a vela

New test methodology and research activity in progress on sailing yachts The experimental tests methodology and the progressing research activity, made at DINMA Department of the University of Trieste, on sailing yachts will be reported. The use of these experimental data for numerical computational codes and for the wave pattern resistance prediction, allows the implementation of new VPP programs, to design new sailing yachts. Optimization processes, made by using the numerical procedures, allow the definition of the optimal geometrical data for an operational condition defined by the designer.