THE MEGA EODEL

摘要

While much of the industry is still struggling to reach pre-recession levels, the top end of the sailing yacht market continues to break new records. The largest sailing yachts ever are now under construction, reaching as long as 147 m, with even larger projects planned. There are four sailing yacht projects currently under construction that are more than 100 m in length. Pushing sailing yachts to these sizes presents greater engineering challenges in handling loads than scaling motor yachts to this size. Computational analysis techniques such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element analysis (FEA) are helping yacht designers better understand and design for these loads while coming up with innovative solutions to handle them.