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Sports Engineering - Topical Collection: Fluid Dynamics in Sports

Guest Editors:
Dr. Andrea Zignoli, University of Trento, Italy
Dr. Fabio Malizia, KU Leuven, Belgium
Dr. Knut Erik Teigen Giljarhus, University of Stavanger, Norway

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 1 February 2025

Description
The quest for performance improvement has always been the basis of competition in sport. This improvement can occur in many ways, among which we find the optimization of fluid dynamics components. Fluids, such as air and water, interact with the athletes and their equipment, generating forces and moments. These forces and moments can be reduced or increased to help the athletes improve their performance. The interaction with the fluid is not only limited to the athletes' body and position, as it expands to their equipment and clothing, and the interaction with other athletes and surroundings.

The aim of this Topical Collection is to gather the most recent advances in sports fluid dynamics, both in terms of improvement of the knowledge on the topic and on new fluid dynamic solutions for athletes’ performance, equipment, clothing, and safety. This collection wants to provide a valuable reference on sports fluid dynamics for scientists, equipment manufacturers, athletes, and governing bodies.

We invited you to submit research articles, technical notes, or reviews. All papers must fit the Aims and Scope (this opens in a new tab) of the journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Wind- and water-tunnel tests
  • Projectile tests
  • Field tests
  • Guidelines and state-of-the-art techniques for fluid dynamic investigations in sport
  • Fluid dynamics of equipment, including projectiles, textile and garments
  • Influence of environmental wind and weather on fluid dynamics
  • Thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, and aerodynamics of apparel
  • Development of new technologies, materials or measurement devices in sports fluid dynamics
  • Fluid dynamics in paralympic sports
  • Fluid dynamics to improve safety


Submission guidelines
All papers must be prepared in accordance with the Instructions for Authors at: https://www.springer.com/journal/12283/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab). Authors should submit through the online submission site (this opens in a new tab) and select article type “TC - Fluid Dynamics in Sports". 

Please indicate your intention to submit a paper to this Topical Collection with an email to the Guest Editors. Please include a tentative title and indicate the type of paper (original research, review, technical note).

Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Topical Collection. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least two independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor-in-Chief.

Authors are encouraged to read the recent editorial “How to write a manuscript for Sports Engineering (this opens in a new tab)”.

Find out about already published articles (this opens in a new tab) in this collection.

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