SIMULATION
The team with the best boat wins. That's the philosophy of any design team trying to get its hands on America's Cup 2000. To meet the challenge, America True's designers partnered in September with Radioss (www.radioss.com/), a French company that develops crash-test-simulation software for the car industry. "We're going to change the crash wall into water," says lead designer Phil Kaiko. Few programs can accurately reproduce a solid-fluid interaction, he says, but with the Radioss tool, boat builders for the first time will be able to accurately measure the effects of wave forces slamming against a hull. No dummies, these designers.
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