Simulations of dolphin kick swimming using smoothed particle hydrodynamics

Human Movement Science

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 604-619

  Cohen, Raymond C Z ^a   Cleary, Paul W ^a   Mason, Bruce R ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF SPORT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Dolphin kick; Human swimming; Smoothed particle hydrodynamics; Stroke optimisation; Underwater undulatory swimming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOLPHIN; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; JOINT MOBILITY; LASER; SWIMMING;

ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLIABILITY; SWIMMING; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84863848848     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: 18727646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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