Effect of body roll amplitude and arm rotation speed on propulsion of arm amputee swimmers

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1111-1117

  Lecrivain, Gregory ^a   Payton, Carl ^b   Slaouti, Arezki ^b   Kennedy, Ian ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arm rotation speed; Average swimming speed; Body roll amplitude; Computational fluid dynamics; Propulsion

Indexed keywords

ARM ROTATION; BODY ROLL AMPLITUDE; DRAG FORCES; FRONT CRAWL; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PROPULSIVE FORCES; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; ROLL AMPLITUDE; SWIMMING SPEED; TEST CASE; UPPER ARM;

ANGULAR VELOCITY; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; COMPLEXATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FLUID DYNAMICS; PROPULSION; RISK ANALYSIS; SPEED; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ROTATION;

ARM AMPUTATION; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MOVEMENT; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROTATION; SIMULATION; SWIMMING; VALIDATION PROCESS; VELOCITY;

AMPUTEES; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RHEOLOGY; ROTATION; SWIMMING;

EID: 77950688997     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.12.014     Document Type: Article

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