スポーツウェアの科学

抄録

I'm going to tell how we use a visual technology on the development of sports wear. Since the beginning of 1980, we have investigated the effect of athletic wear, such as ski-jump, downhill race, using the flow visualization technique in the wind tunnel. This was our first step of the visualization. Since then, we've done the visualization of water-flow in the flume to develop swim suite.
And we've visualized a heat transport characteristic using thermograph to assess temperature & heat characteristics of sports wear. In resent years, we have visualized heat production characteristic of a new material. In last, I'll talk about visualization for new apparel planning technique, using three-dimensional computer graphic (3DCG).