BRITISH RESEARCHERS DEVELOP CLAIMED FASTEST SWIMSUIT IN THE WORLD
February 1st, 2008
BY MONICA DOBIE
RESEARCHERS from the University of Nottingham's School of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, in England's East Midlands, have helped develop what has been hailed as the fastest swimsuit in the world.
Speedo's new LZR Racer swimsuit was made using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) that scanned four hundred athletes' bodies to pin-point areas of high and low friction when they swim. With that information designers were able to position a special highly flexible fabric called LZR PULSE? that is ultrasonically welded to the right ...
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