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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)
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Front Matter
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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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sport Aerodynamics
Editors: Helge Nørstrud
Series Title: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-89297-8
Publisher: Springer Vienna
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: CISM Udine 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-211-89296-1Published: 12 January 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-211-99945-5Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-211-89297-8Published: 23 June 2009
Series ISSN: 0254-1971
Series E-ISSN: 2309-3706
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 331
Number of Illustrations: 195 b/w illustrations
Topics: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Engineering Fluid Dynamics, Engineering, general