Sport Aerodynamics
Invited Lecturers
- Giuseppe Gibertini (Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy)
4 Lectures on:
Aerodynamics of wheeled vehicles such as bicycles and sport cars.- Thomas Jann (Inst. of Flight Systems, Braunschweig, Germany)
4 Lectures on:
Aerodynamics of parachutes, paragliders and hang gliders.- Rabindra Mehta (Sports Aerodyn. Consultant, Mountain View, CA, USA)
6 Lectures on:
Aerodynamics of golf balls, tennis balls, soccer and volleyballs, cricket ball and baseballs. The principles by which the ball in each sport follows a particular flight path will be explained in detail with several examples.- Wolfram Mueller (Medical Univ.of Graz, Graz, Austria)
6 Lectures on:
Human performance, sport biomechanics, performance factors in ski jumping, simulation of ski jumping, aerodynamics of bluff bodies and athletes. The athletes power spectrum and drag and friction determine speed in bicycle races.- Helge Norstrud (Norwegian Un. of Sc. & Technol, Trondheim, Norway)
6 Lectures on:
Basic aerodynamics, drag and lift force, pressure and friction force, vortical flows, wing theory. The earth atmosphere. Cross country skiing, downhill racing, speed skiing and ski jumping aerodynamics.- Lars Saetran (Norwegian Un. of Sc. & Technol, Trondheim, Norway)
5 Lectures on:
The relevance of aerodynamics in track running, human power generation, heat and work production. Forces limiting the movement of the athlete, methods and equipment for aerodynamically improvement of track running. Aerodynamics of ice skating.