Unsteady flow field around a human hand and propulsive force in swimming

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-47

  Matsuuchi, K ^a   Miwa, T ^a   Nomura, T ^a   Sakakibara, J ^a   Shintani, H ^a   Ungerechts, B E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Front crawl; PIV; Propulsive force; Unsteady flow

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL CHANGES; FRONT CRAWL; HORIZONTAL PLANES; HUMAN HANDS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; PIV; PROPULSIVE FORCE; THRUST FORCES; TWO PARTICLES; UNSTEADY FLOW FIELDS; UNSTEADY VORTICES; VELOCITY COMPONENTS; VORTEX DYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; CORRELATION METHODS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RISK ANALYSIS; UNSTEADY FLOW;

VORTEX FLOW;

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; FORCE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWIMMING; TIME; VELOCITY; VORTEX MOTION;

BIOPHYSICS; HAND; HUMANS; RHEOLOGY; SWIMMING;

EID: 58149299664     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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