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Sporting Swifter, Higher and Stronger Performances with Engineering Simulation
Computer-aided engineering plays a major role in the world of sports.
Ball Sports
Having Fun While Studying CFD
The Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College has offered a graduate class on CFD for several years now. Students learn about the theory behind fluid flow and heat transfer, turbulence modeling, and numerical methods.
Engineers Discover Secrets of Soccer-Free Kicks
Three collaborating groups of researchers have unravelled some of the underlying mysteries of "bending" a soccer ball during kicking which will be a feature of the upcoming Soccer World Cup in Japan and Korea this year.
Taking a Bite out of Sports Injuries
Finite element analysis illustrates that both cushioning and support are needed to adequately protect teeth and surrounding tissue from impact injuries.
Putting the swerve into soccer
Some of the world's greatest goalkeepers have been beaten by unusual swerving balls which move to the left and the right before hitting the back of the net, even though they have little or no spin applied to them.
American football in the air
CFD allows football manufacturers to examine the aerodynamics of different surface properties, lace arrangements and seam depths. CFD also helps you to assess the stability of balls in flight.
Clothing & Footwear
No Sweat: Modeling Clothing and Fabrics with FLUENT
Advances in textile technology are expanding the performance boundaries for clothing and technical fabrics. Outdoor and athletic clothing provide weather and thermal protection and manage moisture.
Walking Pain Free
New insoles designed with the mechanical suite from ANSYS relieve pain from foot disease.
Equipment Design
Taking a Bite out of Sports Injuries
Finite element analysis illustrates that both cushioning and support are needed to adequately protect teeth and surrounding tissue from impact injuries.
Designing Fitness Equipment to Withstand the Workout
Keeping bushing wear rates under control allows Life Fitness to maintain some of the highest equipment reliability standards in the fitness industry.
Golf Course Irrigation Components Improved by Over 50 Percent
The Use of CFD in the Chase of Olympic Gold
The year 2004 marked the beginning of what is hoped to become an important tradition in the CFD community: the recognition of excellence among our users. In its inaugural year, five CFD User of the Year Awards were presented to scientists and engineers for groundbreaking efforts in CFD modeling.
Leisure and Toys
Ivy League CFD Simulations
The Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College has used FLUENT for many years. Until recently, its primary use was for research and development projects. For the past two years, however, a graduate class on applied computational fluid dynamics has been offered.
Putting the Pressure on Roller Coaster Riders
Vekoma Rides Manufacturing BV is a market leader in the global amusement industry in the design and manufacture of family coasters, thrill coasters, and family attractions. Boasting a wide product range, Vekoma is responsible for such all-time favorites as the Boomerang, the Invertigo, the Suspended Looping Coaster, and the Junior Coaster.
Reaching for Better Yacht Design
The design of modern sailing yachts is based both on classical towing tank tests and numerical flow simulations. CFD simulations can be a useful aid for yacht designers to understand the complex physics of the flow phenomena involved in the aerodynamics of the mast and sails, the hydrodynamics of the hull and appendages, and the strong interaction between the two.
Fluid Dynamics on the Big Screen
Fluid simulations have come of age in the world of movie-making.
Motor Sports
Team Rahal Takes to the Track
Once again in 2000, the CART FedEx Championship Series proved to be one of the most competitive racing series in the world for Team Rahal, with a record number of drivers (11) winning races and five drivers entering the final event in contention for the championship.
Optimizing the Water Speed Challenger Design
The Quicksilver World Water Speed Record Team is using Fluent's CFD software to optimize the design of what it hopes will become the fastest waterborne craft in history. Quicksilver is powered by a Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan aeroengine and will bid for the World Water Speed Record in the winter of 2001/2002 with team boss Nigel Macknight at the controls.
Arrows Formula 1 Team Moving Up The Grid
The Formula One racing calendar consists of 17 grueling races across four continents. The only goal of each team is for its car to win. The teams are focused on building racing cars to compete at the pinnacle of motorsport. There are many factors that must be considered in designing such a highly complex machine.
Computational Fluid Dynamics in Formula 1 Design
CFD enhances the capability of Formula 1 and
other racecar constructors because it allows them
to exercise many, many more testing options
during the design cycle. From time to time, like most institutions, Formula 1
undergoes revolutions - and one such revolution is
upon us.
Aeroelastic Tailoring of an Indy Car Rear Wing by Multidisciplinary Optimisation
Aerodynamic Development and Evaluation of a Formula SAE Car Using Numerical Simulations
Using Flow Simulation to Optimize Body and Engine Components of a Formula Student Racing Car
FLUENT Teaching Bikers New Tricks
An innovative approach to capturing the geometry of a moving motorcycle and rider in position for a 3D CFD analysis has been successfully carried out by Advantage CFD with the help of 3D Scanners Limited. This so-called "reverse engineering" of a motorcycle and rider was the brainchild of Dr. Rob Lewis of Advantage CFD, a Division of Reynard Motorsport, in Northamptonshire, England.
F1 Supercomputing: Unlocking the Power of CFD
The highly sophisticated body shape of a modern Formula One (F1) car is dictated by aerodynamic efficiency and performance. With numerous deflectors and external devices added, the coupling and interaction between the front-end and rear-end of the car have become strong.
SculptorT Shapes Superkart
When Los Angeles hot rodder Art Ingles built the first kart racer in 1956, he was simply trying to provide himself with an economical racecar. The earliest versions of what would become known as "go-karts" were fitted with surplus lawnmower engines and eventually sold as mail-order kits.
UMR Racecar Wins Formula SAE Event
The Annual Formula SAE® (Society of Automotive Engineers) competition in Pontiac, Michigan is designed to offer students a chance to design, build, and race a formula-style race car.
Olympic Sports
Going for the Gold
Simulation helps design low-drag canoes for Olympic-medal performance.
Tour de Force!
Aerodynamic gains can be realized by studying the interaction between a bicycle and rider.
Speeding Up Development Time for Racing Cycles
Trek Bicycle Corporation cuts product launch delays with simulation-based design using ANSYS Mechanical software.
From Bronze to Gold
Due to its successful use by the America’s Cup and Formula 1 series teams around the world, CFD has become widely recognized as an effective tool in yacht and automotive racing design.
"Designing" the Optimum Stroke
USA Swimming, the national governing body for competitive swimming in the United States, has been using FLUENT to evaluate the flow around the hand and forearm of a swimmer during the propulsion phases of the freestyle and butterfly strokes.
The Winning Edge
Today, victory in sport is a matter of a fraction of a second or a few millimeters separating first and second place. Therefore any legal, cost-effective, and performance-enhancing technology has to be taken seriously, especially given the amount of money associated with winning.
FLUENT Helps Get SportsPulse Racing
The world's first cluster of sporting science and technology, SportsPulse, was launched in mid-October at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield, UK. Fluent Europe is a partner in the project, along with local universities and leading members from sports-related commerce and industry.
The Use of CFD in the Chase of Olympic Gold
The sports and leisure industry today is a global $500 billion business. The industry has seen an increased benefit from CFD modeling over the years, with applications that range from Formula 1 racing cars to golf club design, from ski jumping postures to Olympic swimsuit materials.
On the Pulse of the Olympics
The sports and leisure industry today is a global $500 billion business. The industry has seen an increased benefit from CFD modeling over the years, with applications that range from Formula 1 racing cars to golf club design, from ski jumping postures to Olympic swimsuit materials.
Berlin's Olympic Goldsmiths
The institute for research and development of sporting equipment (FES) in Berlin has been described as a "gold mine", as the equipment that has been developed there has often proved to make a difference during competitions.
A Herculean Task: Keeping Cool at the Athens Olympics
The sculpture "Nations' Wall," situated at the Olympic Sports Complex in Athens and designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, is a monumental structure 260 meters long.
Stadium Design & Construction
Scoring an HVAC Goal for Hockey Spectators
CFD is used to design ventilation systems for sports arenas.
Putting the swerve into soccer
Some of the world's greatest goalkeepers have been beaten by unusual swerving balls which move to the left and the right before hitting the back of the net, even though they have little or no spin applied to them.
A Herculean Task: Keeping Cool at the Athens Olympics
The sculpture "Nations' Wall," situated at the Olympic Sports Complex in Athens and designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, is a monumental structure 260 meters long.
Water Sports
Catching the Simulation Wave
Surfers are using engineering simulation to improve their gear.
Catching a Better Oar Design
Engineers use CFD and a spreadsheet model to assess prospective oar blade designs.
Olympic Kayak Makes Waves
Since the 1936 games in Berlin, the sport of flatwater sprint kayaking has been part of the Olympic tradition. In solo races, a kayaker maneuvers a 17 ft (5.2 m) boat over distances of 500 or 1000 meters using an unattached double-bladed paddle and a foot rudder.
CFD Software Makes Waves in the America’s Cup
The landlocked European nation of Switzerland is not renowned for its seafaring traditions. However, in Auckland, New Zealand during the last three months this stereotype was firmly knocked on the head, as the Swiss-based Alinghi Challenge, skippered by Russell Coutts, won yachting’s blue ribbon event, the America’s Cup, from two-time holders Team New Zealand in a dramatic 5 – 0 series.
Speedo Goes for Gold with CFD
In 1896, when the French Baron, Pierre De Coubertin lobbied to resurrect the ancient Olympic Games as a modern amateur athletic event of sporting excellence, little did he know that one day it would become the biggest event in the world, with an estimated viewing audience of over half the Earth’s population.
Alive & Kicking Underwater
The underwater phases of modern swimming form a large component of the total event time, and can often lead to the difference between earning a medal and finishing with the rest of the pack. Optimal underwater starting and turning techniques require maximizing the distance achieved by minimizing the deceleration rate caused by hydrodynamic drag forces.
Optimizing the Water Speed Challenger Design
The Quicksilver World Water Speed Record Team is using Fluent’s CFD software to optimize the design of what it hopes will become the fastest waterborne craft in history.
“Designing” the Optimum Stroke
USA Swimming, the national governing body for competitive swimming in the United States, has been using FLUENT to evaluate the flow around the hand and forearm of a swimmer during the propulsion phases of the freestyle and butterfly strokes.
Unconventional Sail Design
In the world of Dinghy and Yacht racing, the sail design process is largely
based on the experienced eye of the sailmaker;
with few exceptions, the refinement
of a given sail shape is a time-consuming
process and requires a great amount of fullscale
tests at sea.
Thanks to CFD, an adequate degree of
accuracy can also be obtained when predicting
the behavior of a yacht sailing downwind.
Reaching for Better Yacht Design
The design of modern sailing yachts is based both on classical towing tank tests and numerical flow simulations. CFD simulations can be a useful aid for yacht designers to understand the complex physics of the flow phenomena involved in the aerodynamics of the mast and sails, the hydrodynamics of the hull and appendages, and the strong interaction between the two.
Simulating Swimwear for Increased Speed
Speedo’s new full-body swimsuit takes advantage of simulation technology in pursuit of gold medals and world records.
Winter Sports
Giving Ski Racers an Edge
ANSYS Mechanical software is used to analyze the dynamic properties of skis.
Ice Axe Impacts
Finite element analysis is used to study crack initiation on a serrated blade.
Berlin's Olympic Goldsmiths
The institute for research and development of sporting equipment (FES) in Berlin has been described as a "gold mine", as the equipment that has been developed there has often proved to make a difference during competitions.
"Dr. Ice" and his Skeleton Crew
The United Kindom is not renowned for its climate being conducive to winter sports. However, with the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy coming up in February 2006, a new breed of athlete has come along. Kristan Bromley, the top-ranked skeleton bobsled competitor in the UK, and current European Champion, is a leading British medal prospect.
