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Research on generation mechanism of unsteady fluid forces and application to propulsion in swimming

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17500411
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Sports science
Research InstitutionAkita University

Principal Investigator

HASEGAWA Hiroaki  Akita University, Mechanical Engineering, Lecturer (90344770)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) MATSUUCHI Kazuo  University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering, Professor (70111367)
Project Period (FY) 2005 – 2007
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,610,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
KeywordsDynamic Lift / Unsteady Fluid Force / Pitchine Motion / Lift / Drag / Three-Dimensional Airfoil / Swimming / 非定序流体力 / 動的失速
Research Abstract

For experiments in circulating water channel by a human swimmer
The PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) technique can visualize the unsteady flow field and can detect the vortex behavior around a hand. Moreover, motion analysis has been widely used in the field of biomechanics of sport. A motion analysis can analyze the unsteady motion of swimmer quantitatively, and can also be expected to evaluate the swimmer's complicated motion. Two methods were combined to know the generating mechanism of swimming thrust. Measurements were made for two subjects; one is a female Olympic swimmer (subject 1) and the other is a male with no competitive career (subject 2). From the results of visualization of flow field, subject 1 generates strong vortices or vortex pair after the phase turned from in-sweep to out-sweep. In addition, the shed vortex pair follows a jet flow in the direction of the flume flow. In contrast, subject 2 did not shed any vortex pairs. It was confirmed that: the hand motion in swim … More ming was closely related to the vortex generation and also to the thrust.
For wind tunnel experiments
In order to investigate the effect of leading edge profile on unsteady fluid forces, several types of model (circular, triangular and square shapes) were installed. The delay of stall for the pitching models is observed and also the value of maximum lift coefficient is greater than the maximum lift coefficient under stationary condition. The unsteady fluid forces are affected by the differences of the leading edge vortex due to the different leading edge profile. Furthermore, to investigate the mechanism of propulsion in front crawl swimming, we measured the flow field around a discoid airfoil simulating a human hand by using hot-wire anemometry and PIV. The structure of flow around the pitching and heaving airfoil was also measured. At high reduced frequency, the leading edge vortex and tip vortex are formed in the wake of the airfoil and shed when the circumferential velocity of the airfoil reaches maximum. It was confirmed that the unsteady fluid forces are closely related to the generation of large vortices. The flow structures due to the behavior of vortices shedding from the airfoil edge during the pitching motion were strongly affected by the reduced frequency. At high reduced frequency, the significant vortices were formed close to the airfoil's treading edge, and large scale vortices were generated in the wake of the airfoil. Less

Report

(4 results)
  • 2007 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2006 Annual Research Report
  • 2005 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (15 results)

All 2008 2007 2006

All Journal Article (7 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results) Presentation (8 results)

  • [Journal Article] Unsteady Fluid Forces and Vortical Structure Acting on a Three-Dimen sional Airfoil2008

    • Author(s)
      Hiroaki, HASEGAWA, Atsushi, NAKAMURA, Kazuki, TANAKA
    • Journal Title

      12th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Unsteady Fluid Forces and Vortical Structure Acting on a Three-Dimensional Airfoil2008

    • Author(s)
      Hiroaki. Hasegawa, Atsushi. Nakamura and Kazuki.Tanaka
    • Journal Title

      12th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics (CD-ROM)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Unsteady Fluid Forces and Vortical Structure Acting on a Three-Dimensional Airfoil2008

    • Author(s)
      Hiroaki. HASEGAWA, Atsushi. NAKAMURA, Kazuki. TANAKA
    • Journal Title

      12th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics

    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 3次元円盤翼に働く非定常流体力と渦構造2007

    • Author(s)
      田中一輝, 長谷川裕晃
    • Journal Title

      日本機械学会講演論文集 070-1

      Pages: 495-496

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 三次元形状翼の前縁形状の違いがダイナミックリフトに及ぼす影響2007

    • Author(s)
      中村淳, 長谷川裕晃
    • Journal Title

      日本機械学会講演論文集 070-1

      Pages: 497-498

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 三次元形状翼に働く非定常流体力及び渦構造2006

    • Author(s)
      羽鳥拓人, 松内一雄, 長谷川裕晃, 辺純
    • Journal Title

      日本機械学会講演論文集 06-1 ・2

      Pages: 429-430

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] ピッチング運動する3次元翼の前縁形状の違いが非定常流体力に及ぼす影響2006

    • Author(s)
      柏崎 健, 長谷川 裕晃
    • Journal Title

      日本機械学会講演論文集 060-1

      Pages: 409-410

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 3次元振動翼後流での渦の挙動2008

    • Author(s)
      細川裕喜・長谷川裕晃・中村淳・松内一雄・羽鳥拓人
    • Organizer
      日本機械学会
    • Place of Presentation
      東京海洋大学越中島キャンパス
    • Year and Date
      2008-03-15
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] Vortex Behavior in the Wake of 3-Dimensional Oscillating Airfoil2008

    • Author(s)
      Hiroki Hosokawa, Hiroaki Hasegawa, Atsushi Nakamura, Kazuo Matsuuchi and Takuto Hatori
    • Organizer
      The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
    • Place of Presentation
      Tokyo Univ. of Marine arine Science and Technology
    • Year and Date
      2008-03-15
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] 振動翼による水泳の模型実験2007

    • Author(s)
      羽鳥拓人・松内一雄・長谷川裕晃
    • Organizer
      日本機械学会
    • Place of Presentation
      広島大学工学部
    • Year and Date
      2007-11-18
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] Experimental Study on Crawl Swimming Using Oscillating Wing2007

    • Author(s)
      Takuto Hatori, Kazuo Matsuuchi and Hiroaki Hasegawa
    • Organizer
      The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
    • Place of Presentation
      Hiroshima Univ.
    • Year and Date
      2007-11-18
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] ピッチング運動する三次元翼に働く非定常流体力と渦構造に関する研究2007

    • Author(s)
      中村淳・長谷川裕晃・田中一輝
    • Organizer
      日本機械学会
    • Place of Presentation
      関西大学
    • Year and Date
      2007-09-12
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] Study of Unsteady Fluid Forces and Vortical Structure Acting on a 3-Dimensional Airfoil during Pitching Motion2007

    • Author(s)
      Atsushi Nakamura, Hiroaki Hasegawa and Kazuki Tanaka
    • Organizer
      The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
    • Place of Presentation
      Kansai Univ.
    • Year and Date
      2007-09-12
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] 非定常流体力と渦の挙動2007

    • Author(s)
      田中一輝・長谷川裕晃
    • Organizer
      日本流体力学会
    • Place of Presentation
      東京大学教養学部
    • Year and Date
      2007-08-08
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report 2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Presentation] Unsteady Fluid Force and Vortical behavior2007

    • Author(s)
      Kazuki Tanaka and Hiroaki Hasegawa
    • Organizer
      Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics annual meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      Univ. of Tokyo
    • Year and Date
      2007-08-08
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary

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