Output details
15 - General Engineering
Queen Mary University of London
Article title
Unsteady fluid mechanics effects in water based human locomotion
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
Article number
-
Volume number
82
Issue number
3
First page of article
471
ISSN of journal
0378-4754
Year of publication
2011
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
The paper describes the development of a robotic arm devised to simulate front crawl swimming enabling direct measurement of the propulsive moment. A model using in-house wind tunnel data was developed achieving 3% accuracy for the unsteady flow conditions. The model is now applied in software aiding swimming team coaches and was adopted by Austrian and German Olympic teams who won 5 medals in London 2012.The study also led to invited presentations at the Australian Institute of Sport and the 18th Congress European College of Sport Science (3000 participants) and appointment as a biomechanics advisor at the University of California.
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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