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@article{175276,
        author = {Prasanth K and Preetha Varghese and Balakrishnan C R},
        title = {Selection Of Wind Sail Profile Using Computational Fluid Dynamics},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {11},
        pages = {3351-3359},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=175276},
        abstract = {The marine industry is highly dependent on oil as fuel and the increased consumption of this fast-depleting oil resource creates a shortage of fuel for the future as well as pollutes the environment and seriously affects marine life. Also, the oil price is very high these days. Thus, the need for an alternate sustainable fuel source is of great importance. One such feasible alternative energy source is wind energy. The abundance, free availability and ease of conversion makes it an ideal alternative to oil, this wind energy can be extracted by sails. This project involves analysis of different types of aero foil geometries (NACA0012, NACA0015, NACA0018, NACA0020) at 11 different wind angles and picking out the most efficient type. Then, the geometry of the selected airfoil is modified by bending the trailing edge at various positions of chord length and thereby selecting the most optimum design by considering the factors such as variation of forward thrust, lateral thrust, corresponding to different tip angles with the help of computational fluid dynamics at different wind angle.  NACA 0018 is opted out among these four airfoils. The modified geometry of NACA0018 at 40% chord length by 30-degree flap angle is selected as the most optimum wind sail profile.},
        keywords = {Aerofoil geometries, NACA(National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) aerofoils, Computational Fluid Dynamics.},
        month = {April},
        }