The ninth edition of the Lanzarote Quemao Class has concluded with its surf and bodyboard finals. The wave and wind conditions allowed the development of the events. In bodyboard, the Tenerife native David Pérez claimed the title against Alex Uranga, Ruyman Rey, and Pierre Louis Costes. In surf, the semifinals defined the finalists with the presence of figures like Aritz Aranburu, local surfers, and French competitors.
CFD Simulation for Board Design and Flow Study 🌊
Performance in the water depends on the equipment. The design of surf and bodyboard boards uses tools like Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). These simulations allow analyzing the water flow around the fin and the rocker. The data obtained guide adjustments in the shape to optimize planing, stability in the tube, and response in turns. It is a process that combines traditional art with engineering.
The digital shaper who never gets the tips of his fingers wet 💻
While the competitors were freezing waiting for sets on the ramp, software on an air-conditioned computer was deciding the future of their boards. CFD suggests a more pronounced rocker and the shaper, with hands clean of resin, executes the change. It is ironic that the key to mastering a medium as wild as the sea passes through algorithms that have never felt a rip current. Technology advances, but you ride the wave.