RESEARCH ARTICLE
Modelling Swimming Hydrodynamics to Enhance Performance
Daniel A. Marinho1, 2, Abel I. Rouboa3, Tiago M. Barbosa2, 4, Antonio J. Silva2, 5, *
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2010Volume: 3
First Page: 43
Last Page: 46
Publisher ID: TOSSJ-3-43
DOI: 10.2174/1875399X010030100043
Article History:
Received Date: 05/07/2009Revision Received Date: 06/10/2009
Acceptance Date: 01/11/2009
Electronic publication date: 20/4/2010
Collection year: 2010
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Swimming assessment is one of the most complex but outstanding and fascinating topics in biomechanics. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methodology is one of the different methods that have been applied in swimming research to observe and understand water movements around the human body and its application to improve swimming performance. CFD has been applied attempting to understand deeply the biomechanical basis of swimming. Several studies have been conducted willing to analyze the propulsive forces produced by the propelling segments and the drag force resisting forward motion. CFD technique can be considered as an interesting new approach for evaluation of swimming hydrodynamic forces, according to recent evidences. In the near future, as in the present, CFD will provide valorous arguments for defining new swimming techniques or equipments.
