On the Cyclist's Drag Crisis

Journal Article (2019)
Author(s)

Wouter Terra (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

Andrea Sciacchitano (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

Fulvio Scarano (TU Delft - Aerospace Engineering)

Faculty
Aerospace Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.28985/jsc.v8i2.496 Final published version
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Publication Year
2019
Language
English
Faculty
Aerospace Engineering
Issue number
2
Volume number
8
Pages (from-to)
57-58
Event
Science and Cycling Congress 2019 (2019-07-03 - 2019-07-04), Brussels, Belgium
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Abstract

The distribution of the critical velocity (point of minimum aerodynamic drag) is determined along the body of a time-trial cyclist by flow measurement in the model's near-wake.