AeroSim Portal

The AeroSim Portal is a unique online sail design service

by Cape Horn Engineering

AeroSim is the first online sail design portal, providing you with rapid feedback on your designs. What used to be a long, tedious and therefore costly process accessible only to a chosen few has become a quick and simple procedure for anyone within the industry. Accurate results of the best possible sail geometry plus an efficient visualisation of the sail loads are available in just less than 1 hour.

The AeroSim Portal is developed with technology originating from Volvo Ocean Race and America’s Cup campaigns and is truly the state-of -the-art. Applied simulation methodologies are rigorously examined and validated.

Who is it for?

This online service is designed for sail makers, naval architects, yacht designers and/or sailors. It will analyse and evaluate the performance of the sails (and the boat), from a single sail design to multiple geometries, weather conditions and racecourse conditions.

A fast, efficient service, that is easy to use

Upload your sail design and the AeroSim Portal will run a report and return it to you usually in half an hour.
Never before have yacht and sail designers had the opportunity to so quickly receive the full extent of aerodynamic technology developed for Volvo Ocean Racing and America’s Cup campaigns. High fidelity simulations in a push of a button. Simulation methodology is backed up by a decade of validation.
The AeroSim Portal offers a very cost-effective solution for a complex task. It has been designed and engineered to offer a cloud-based sail design tool to boost sailing yacht performance.
We guarantee the privacy of your data.
FREE TRIAL – Enter the portal and register now to receive 5 tokens for free ! 5 tokens will allow you to run 5 simulations.

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How does it work?

AeroSim runs on an HPC infrastructure and exploits the top notch software in Maritime industry. Your sail geometries are automatically made clean and ready for simulation so that the CFD computation can run seamlessly. The output in terms of Forces and Moments and separate 3D visualization of pressure, velocity and, in case, flow separation, is sent directly to you.

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Your Input

The only information needed is your 3D sailing plan and the sailing conditions you want to investigate. The rest is just one click away from the CFD results.

Geometry

We check, clean and configure your 3D geometry following the sailing conditions you supply. If hull and boom are not provided by you directly, you can still choose to use the ones in our library, and the Aero Sim service will scale and position them correctly. You will be able to check the final geometry before submission.

Mesh

The volume of fluid around your sails, mast, boom and hull is divided in small hexaedral cells. At Cape Horn Engineering we know that the difference comes from small details and that is why we will never compromise on mesh size. Our best practices use several million of cells in order to guarantee that any curvature or intersection is computed at the highest level.

Results

Reynolds Average Navier Stokes Equations are solved on our HPC infrastructure an you get in approximately half an hour a pdf report with a table of forces and moments and customized flow images, and many other optional post-processing features.

We recommend that you take a few minutes to read our ONLINE USER GUIDE before entering the AeroSim Portal to submit your designs.

AEROSIM PORTAL USER GUIDE

Alternatively, you can watch our VIDEO USER GUIDE which is easy to follow with clear instructions. It will take just a few minutes to watch, before entering the AeroSim Portal.