A review on skin suits and sport garment aerodynamics: guidelines and state of the art

The present work describes and compares previous results in the field of garment aerodynamics combined with not published results coming from recent experiments conducted at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). A number of factors resulting from the combination of the athlete's motion and posture, garment and aerodynamics are analyzed and their effect on the overall drag of the athlete is presented. Textiles with different patterns have been proven to be able to reduce the overall drag of the athletes.

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