Full-Body
Analysis of Swimming Techniques
In competitive
swimming the dolphin kick is performed after the start and after each turn in
all four strokes. It is therefore a substantial part of the actual competition,
and any insights that can aid the performance of the dolphin kick will aid the
performance as a whole.
An
integrated approach is taken at the Flow Simulation and Analysis Group to
further the understanding of the dolphin kick and swimming in general. The
first step consists of laser body scans taken of Olympic athletes and kindly
provided by USA Swimming. These laser body scans are then meshed into thousands
of triangles, our unstructured triangular surface mesh, using the software
GAMBIT. On average 20000 triangles are used, with finer triangles and denser
packing used at areas of higher curvature.
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