Cape Horn Engineering is renowned for state-of-the-art CFD. We can help you win yacht races, save on fuel, improve performance, safety or passenger comfort. We excel in what we do thanks to our love for detail and our exclusive use of the best available tools. Great computing resources are a guarantee for outstanding results delivered in a timely manner.
YACHT RACING DESIGN
Cape Horn Engineering has been at the core of simulation based America’s Cup and Volvo Ocean Race design campaigns for over a decade, always pushing the boundaries. Our designs have helped 3 Sailing Teams win the famous around the world race. And we won’t stop there.
SHIP OPTIMISATION
Cape Horn Engineering has pioneered RANSE based CFD since its very beginning and continues its research work on a daily basis. Thanks to our proven track record in America´s Cup and Volvo Ocean Race competitions we are in a position to lay this cutting edge technology at your fingertips: to save fuel, to improve performance, comfort and safety.
RENEWABLES
We firmly believe the world needs to make a shift towards renewable energies as soon as possible. Thanks to our expertise in aerodynamics and hydrodynamics we can improve the performance of wind energy rotor blades, wave energy structures or – you name it!
Who Are We?
Cape Horn Engineering is an independent CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) consultancy company with clients all over the world. We are industry leaders in CFD and specialize in the design of racing yachts, commercial ships and renewables. We have been involved in several America’s Cup campaigns and have dominated for almost a decade the Volvo Ocean Race.
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For almost two years Cape Horn Engineering has been the exclusive CFD provider of BAR Technologies, a marine design and engineering consultancy start-up. We have sharedRead more >
Born in the Le Havre, "the gateway to France“ in 1992, Charles is a hydrodynamics specialist and a watersports enthusiast. Having graduated from the FrenchRead more >
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