The effect of swimmer's hand/forearm acceleration on propulsive forces generation using computational fluid dynamics

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1239-1248

  Rouboa, Abel ^a   Silva, António ^b   Leal, Luís ^a   Rocha, Jorge ^a   Alves, Francisco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

CFD; Drag; Hydrodynamics; Lift; Turbulence models

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG; HYDRODYNAMICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STEADY FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EQUATIONS OF THE FLOW; FOREARM ACCELERATION; PROPULSIVE FORCES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FOREARM; HAND MOVEMENT; LIFTING EFFORT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; SWIMMING; THUMB; VELOCITY;

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOREARM; HAND; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; RHEOLOGY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WATER;

EID: 33646064469     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2005.03.012     Document Type: Article

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