Fig 1.
3D model of the swimmer with a traditional streamlined posture.
Fig 2.
Segment model of human body.
Table 1.
Main physical parameters of the swimmer.
Fig 3.
Sketch of computational mesh.
Fig 4.
Swimmers’ pitch and heave with time for different grid resolutions.
Fig 5.
Validation of 6-DOF method using a scaled swimmer model with a streamlined posture.
Fig 6.
Comparison of the numerical results with the experimental ones by Elipot et al. for the variation of swimmers’ surge with position.
Fig 7.
Variation of swimmer’s surge, sway, heave, roll, pitch and yaw with time for different initial velocities.
Fig 8.
(a) Swimmer’s drag force versus time. (b) Swimmer’s lift force versus time.
Fig 9.
Synthesized map of the variation of swimmer’s distribution and vortex structures (visualized by iso-surface of swirling strength of 17s-1) around the swimmer during the glide for initial velocity of 3.5m/s.
Table 2.
Comparison of total time for different start strategies.
Fig 10.
(a) Swimmer’s glide factor versus velocity. (b) Swimmer’s glide factor versus time.