As the Americas Cup gets underway, we’ve turned towards the amazing amount of simulation and optimisation that goes into building one of the craft.
In this case it’s the British entry, Land Rover BAR, with simulation team leader Matteo Ledri talking us through some of the key challenges the team face.
ModeFrontier from Esteco was used widely throughout the design process of the AC 45 foiling catamarans, and here Ledri explains just how it was used to automate the process and implement a multi-disciplinary approach for complex workflows that incorporate all kinds of software solutions.
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