Sentence examples for sail performance from inspiring English sources
In general, the results are good; however, the simulations fail to correctly predict the effect of camber on sail performance for beam and broad reaching conditions.
Heliocentric and planetocentric trajectory analysis has been conducted to assess the sail performance level required to return samples within a reasonable timescale, whilst maintaining manageable sail dimensions.
The level of solar sail performance required for GeoSail is typical of that currently being discussed within Europe for a near-term technology demonstration mission.
Such a value, although beyond the currently available sail performance, is comparable to what is required by the original concept of H-reversal maneuvers introduced by Vulpetti in 1996.
For a near-term sail performance comparable to that of NASA's Sunjammer sail, the results show transfers that indeed require very little steering effort: the sail acceleration vector can be bounded to a cone around the Sun-sail line with a half-angle of 7.5 deg.
Britain's best previous Olympic sailing performance was a four-gold haul in the 1908 Games.
Paradoxically, these beautiful, newly built leisure boats, intended to revive the concept of sailing, mostly offer rather poor sailing performance.
Not our best sailing performance but our best event-management performance".
The sailing performance of an S-type small waterplane area twin hull (S-SWATH) vehicle, which has comparable total resistance at low and high speeds, in waves is investigated.
CFD application by mimicking the swimming of fish and underwater dolphin kicking has been utilized to understand active drag and propulsive net thrust and this has resulted in better sailing performance, Olympic ski jumping, Formula 1 racing, Speedo's new Fastskin FSII swimsuit and an optimal kick profile in swim starts and turns.
Speed and sailing performance were secondary to the requirement of making the ship a safe and warm shelter during a predicted lengthy confinement.
