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America's Cup - Motion or position sensing - Oracle Team USA + Video

by Sail-World.com on 10 Feb 2016
- Oracle Team USA training in Bermuda in the AC45 Surrogate boat Oracle Team USA media
Oracle Team USA - Tech Tuesday video with Ian Burns

Motion sensing and position sensing is critical for evaluating the performance of our America's Cup boats. Modern technology has resolved positioning and movement to a degree of accuracy that would astonish navigators of old. 'We know exactly where we are, we know exactly how fast we are moving and we know exactly how much the boat is accelerating in every axis,' says Performance Manager Ian 'Fresh' Burns. Video by Javier Salinas / Oracle Team USA



Wing Design:
Design team member Christoph Erbelding talks us through the challenge of designing and building the perfect foil - the wingsail that powers the boat forward at speeds approaching 50 mph.
#TechTuesday video by Javier Salinas / Oracle Team USA.



CFD:
Oracle Team USA is creating virtual wind tunnels and towing tanks through computational fluid mechanics tools. Designer Len Imas discusses the use of the different simulation software - RANS (Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes) and Lattis Boltzmann methods - in this #TechTuesday feature by Javier Salinas / Oracle Team USA

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