Effect of swim suit design on passive drag

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1029-1035

  Mollendorf, Joseph C ^a,b,c   Termin II, Albert C ^a   Oppenheim, Eric ^b   Pendergast, David R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Friction drag; Laminar flow; Passive drag; Turbulent flow; Wave drag

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BIOMECHANICS; CALCULATION; CLOTHING; HUMAN; KNEE; LEG; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; SHOULDER; SWIMMING; TRUNK; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY;

ADULT; CLOTHING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FRICTION; HUMANS; SWIMMING;

EID: 2642525341     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000128179.02306.57     Document Type: Article

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