| Title |
Analysis of swimmer’s hand velocity, orientation and shape using computational fluid dynamics / |
| Authors |
Bilinauskaite, Milda ; Mantha, Vishveshwar Rajendra ; Ziliukas, Pranas ; Silva, Antonio Jose |
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| Is Part of |
Vibroengineering procedia: 17th international conference “Vibroengineering – 2014”, Katowice, Poland, 13-15 October, 2014 .. Kaunas : JVE International. 2014, vol. 3, p. 292.. ISSN 2345-0533. eISSN 2538-8479 |
| Keywords [eng] |
drag force ; lift force ; propulsive phase ; front crawl swimming |
| Abstract [eng] |
The aim of current study is to determine the hydrodynamic characteristics of swimmer’s hand models with different shapes, for various combinations of its orientation and velocity, simulating propulsive phase of front crawl swimming. A real swimmer’s hand with closed and separated fingers was scanned using 3D scanner. The fluid flow simulation was carried out using ANSYS FLUENT®, for the investigation of hydrodynamic parameter's distribution around the swimmer's hand model. Drag and lift forces were calculated using computational fluid dynamics in steady state. The study demonstrates that, in all cases hand model with separated fingers generates higher drag force than hand model with closed finger's. Therefore hand model with separated fingers is able to produce higher forward propulsion in propulsive phase of front crawl swimming. |
| Published |
Kaunas : JVE International |
| Type |
Conference paper |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2014 |
| CC license |
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