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ROWING Germany Rocks on Water By Nicolas Warzecha, Simulation Engineer (CFD Expert) Institute for Research and Development of Sports Equipment Berlin, Germany dvances in boat recent efforts — designing more stream- FES engineers have used lined bobsleds for the 2006 Winter games equipment design via ANSYS software to simulation help to in Turin, Italy — FES has continued to A?? achieve international success by devel- optimize the fluid dynamics sustain Germany’s Olympic oping sports equipment in accordance for different classes of excellence. with the latest engineering technology. racing boats, contributing Numerical simulation has been a part of In the pantheon of Olympic sports, boat- the company’s toolbox for over a decade to several medal-winning ing competitions have been around since as FES engineers have used ANSYS CFX to performances at the the very beginning. Rowing was to have optimize the fluid dynamics for different 2008 Beijing games and its debut in the 1896 games in Athens classes of racing boats. Their work con- but was delayed until the 1900 games in tributed to several medal-winning perfor- preparing for the Paris by bad weather. Canoeing and kay- mances at the 2008 Beijing games, and it 2012 London games. aking were first contested in the Berlin is helping the German team prepare for games of 1936. Over the course of mod- the 2012 London games. ern Olympic history, no country’s teams The focus of recent simulation efforts have won more medals in the rowing, at FES has been on some of the smaller (5.2 meters) with a minimum weight of canoeing and kayaking events than the