IMOCA 60 - Corum L'Epargne

Foil Design, Performance Prediction, Boat and Sail Development

Involved as part of Juan Yacht Design Team in the design of the IMOCA 60 CORUM L’Épargne, built for Nicolas Troussel’s campaign in the 2020 Vendée Globe and later raced in the Ocean Race Europe 2021.

I contributed to both the initial concept and development phases of the boat.

• Early work focused on:
  • CFD and VPP simulations to validate the overall design.
  • Strong focus on foil design, where FSI simulations were used the refinement of the appendage.
  • Weather Routing to validate the overall design as well as obtaining relevant wind statistics.
• In later stages, I worked on the evolution of foil geometries, performance data analysis, and collaborated closely with sail designers to align sail development with the yacht’s performance profile.

Main tools: CFD (Star-CCM+), FEA (Abaqus) for FSI, VPP, In-house router, and Python for simulation and data analysis.