Affiliation:
1. School of Exercise and Health, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China
2. China Institute of Sport Science, Beijing 100061, China
Abstract
In view of the inability to directly and accurately obtain an athlete’s aerodynamic force during the take-off phase through the wind tunnel test, the athlete’s aerodynamic force and surrounding flow field form under different take-off postures are obtained through numerical simulation research, and the effects of different take-off modes on the aerodynamic characteristics during take-off in ski jumping are discussed. The multi-body system composed of the athlete and skis was selected as the research object. By using a partially averaged Navier–Stokes (PANS) turbulence model and a 3D numerical simulation of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the aerodynamic characteristics of the athlete under different take-off postures were predicted. The take-off modes include the knee-push-hip (KPH) mode and hip-drive-knee (HDK) mode, and the hip joint angle of the HDK mode is significantly greater than that of the KPH mode. First, the aerodynamic force ratio of the athlete’s torso and legs is obviously large. Although the aerodynamic forces of arms themselves are not obvious, they have a great impact on the overall aerodynamic characteristics of the athlete, so the posture of the arms cannot be ignored. The total drag and moment of the HDK mode are significantly higher than that of the KPH mode, and the lift-to-drag ratio of the HDK mode is significantly lower than that of the KPH mode. At first, the total lift of the HDK mode is higher than that of the KPH mode, but in the last attitude, the total lift of the HDK mode does not rise but fall, and finally, the total lift of the HDK mode is lower than that of the KPH mode. The aerodynamic characteristics change dramatically during the take-off phase, and the aerodynamic characteristics of the two take-off modes are quite different, and these changes and differences are difficult to observe during real training and at the competition site. The KPH mode has an obvious aerodynamic advantage over the HDK mode. During the take-off process, the athlete should increase the force generated by the knee joint extension and appropriately reduce the speed of the hip joint extension, control the using force order of the lower limb joints, and push the hip joint extension by the knee joint extension in order to avoid issues, such as the hip joint angle being too large, the hip joint extension angle being too fast, the center of gravity being too far back, and other problems. Studying the aerodynamic characteristics during the take-off phase provides valuable insights for athletes to achieve favorable flight postures after take-off, offering scientific guidance to improve their training strategies and enhance their competitive performance.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
National key research and development plan project of China
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science
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