Thursday, January 15, 2026

CFD, RIP.


People regularly ask me why I don't use computational fluid dynamics (CFD), or at least they used to until my therapist said it was just voices in my head. Though this is why... a post on one forum bemoaning how the 'mesh' of his rigid inflatable (RIB) is incomplete. What it means subsequent is an incursion of digital water to strains of 'My Heart Will Go On'.

Even with that remedied however it has then to be launched within a separate suite of software, by which time you could have built it in the garage and donned waders.

A reason though I intend to prioritise the catamaran over the mono-ski is because I know it will float level from the get-go with its motors and propellers largely clear of the waterline, whilst lending itself to testing on surfaces beside water and at speeds slow enough to be practical on the smallest of stretches. None of this, love it as we do, could be said of the monoski.