Effect of wearing a swimsuit on hydrodynamic drag of swimmer

The purpose of this study was to analyse the effect of wearing a swimsuit on swimmer's passive drag. A computational fluid dynamics analysis was carried out to determine the hydrodynamic drag of a female swimmer's model (i) wearing a standard swimsuit; (ii) wearing a last generation swimsu...

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Main Authors: Daniel Almeida Marinho, Vishveshwar Rajendra Mantha, João Paulo Vilas-Boas, Rui Jorge Ramos, Leandro Machado, Abel Ilah Rouboa, António José Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 2012-12-01
Series:Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132012000600007