HIGH-FIDELITY MODELING OF SWIMMING HYDRODYNAMICS USING CFD

Authors

  • Alfred von Loebbecke
  • Rajat Mittal

Keywords:

computational fluid dynamics, dolphin kick, animation

Abstract

Laser body scans, underwater video footage, animation software and computational fluid dynamics are used in combination to investigate the dolphin kick in competitive swimming. The "virtual swimmer" so created is immersed in a rectangular CFD domain of about 4.2 million mesh points in which the 3-D unsteady incompressible Navier- Stokes equations for viscous flow with constant properties are solved.

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Published

2007-12-12

Issue

25 International Symposium on Biomechanics in Sports (2007)

Section

Modelling / Simulation

License

Authors can retain copyright, while granting the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports (ISBS) the right of first publication.