Yacht Design

About this programme

Please read carefully the pages Requirements for access and enrolment and Personal background check Standards concerning the stability and buoyancy, the leak problem, the rolling movement and stabilisation means, speed effects on the stability. The course deals with the motion law definition as well as the hydrodynamics characteristics regulating ship and yacht behaviour from the manoeuvrability, seakeeping and dynamic stability sides. The course regards the Finite Element Method for solving linear static mechanical problems The course is intended to provide students with the basis of the most advanced numerical techniques adopted for the solution of the hydrodynamic problems related to naval architecture. The theoretical background of each proposed methodology, with its field of application and its limits, is presented together with hands-on examples. This units aims to complete the student skills in the naval architecture field through the study of advanced topics specifically concerning the preliminary phase of the design. The course will provide basic knowledge about scantling criteria of sailing systems. Typical configurations are analyzed using applicable rules and by means of some advanced numerical methods. Some concepts of sail design, from a structural perspective, are presented along with a few hints about fluid structure interaction problems. Focused on concepts concerning the onboard space and arrangement, with particular concern to the organisation on several bridges. This unit supplies students with the basic fundamentals of the sail aerodynamics and