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Title:
Sport aerodynamics
Series:
CISM courses and lectures ; no. 506
Publication Information:
New York : Springer-Verlag, 2008
Physical Description:
331 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9783211892961
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Summary

In sport disciplines such as running, ice skating, bicycling and cross-country skiing the aerodynamic drag force constitutes the major obstacle to overcome. Furthermore, in ski jumping and in various activities involving a ball the aerodynamic lift force comes in addition into action.

This book describes the various sport disciplines on the basis of aerodynamic analysis and also cover the biomechanics part by illustrative performance examples. Such treatment of the underlying physical phenomena of sport activities gives a valuable supplement to existing literature on sport. The reader will also be guided to references which exist for the various topics discussed, so she or he can go into a deeper study of the particular sport activity at wish.


Table of Contents

H. NorstrudL. SaetranG. Gibertini and D. GrassiW. Muller and P. HofmannL. SaetranH. NorstrudH. NorstrudW. MullerW. MullerW. Meile and W. Muller and E. ReisenbergerH. NorstrudR. D. Mehta
Basic Aerodynamicsp. 1
Factors influencing on runningp. 9
Cycling Aerodynamicsp. 23
Performance factors in bicycling: Human power, drag, and rolling resistancep. 49
Skin Suit Aerodynamics in Speed Skatingp. 93
Cross-Country Skiingp. 107
Alpine Downhill and Speed-Skiingp. 131
Performance factors in ski jumpingp. 139
Computer simulation of ski jumping based on wind tunnel datap. 161
Ski-Jumping Aerodynamics: Model-Experiments and CFD-Simulationsp. 183
Some Aspects of Ski Jumpingp. 217
Sports Ball Aerodynamicsp. 229
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