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Engineering the world's fastest swimsuit
Date:2/28/2008

r Morvan, a lecturer in fluid mechanics, said: CFD enabled us to use the compressive property of the suit to shape the body as ideally as possible, taking into account the physiological and bio-mechanical requirements of the athlete.

The new suit has 5 per cent less drag than Speedos 2007 suit, the FS Pro, which saw swimmers break 21 world records.

Analysis by Dr Morvan and his team at The University of Nottingham was carried out in collaboration with flume work at the University of Otago, in New Zealand and fabric tests by NASA.

Dr Morvan who is now working with Speedo towards the 2012 Olympics in London said: We are now building up toward active drag which accounts for the athlete motion and its interaction with the free surface. This should further validate the suit design as we move to the 2012 Olympics.


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Contact: Dr. Herve Morvan
herve.morvan@nottingham.ac.uk
University of Nottingham
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