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Sport Aerodynamics

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Part of the book series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM, volume 506)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Basic Aerodynamics

    • Helge Nørstrud
    Pages 1-8
  3. Factors influencing on running

    • Lars Saetran
    Pages 9-22
  4. Cycling Aerodynamics

    • Giuseppe Gibertini, Donato Grassi
    Pages 23-47
  5. Skin Suit Aerodynamics in Speed Skating

    • Lars Sætran, Luca Oggiano
    Pages 93-105
  6. Cross-Country Skiing

    • Helge Nørstrud
    Pages 107-130
  7. Alpine Downhill and Speed-Skiing

    • Helge Nørstrud
    Pages 131-138
  8. Performance factors in ski jumping

    • Wolfram Müller
    Pages 139-160
  9. Ski-Jumping Aerodynamics: Model-Experiments and CFD-Simulations

    • Walter Meile, Wolfram Müller, Ewald Reisenberger
    Pages 183-216
  10. Some Aspects of Ski Jumping

    • Helge Nørstrud
    Pages 217-228
  11. Sports Ball Aerodynamics

    • Rabindra D. Mehta
    Pages 229-331

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Helge Nørstrud

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