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Swimsuit Design Uses Supercomputing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the go-with-the-flow dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "These days, most competitive swimmers wear some type of body suit to reduce high skin-friction drag from water. And makers of swimwear are already busy working on new models for the Olympics 2008. According to Textile & Apparel, Speedo is even using a supercomputer to refine its designs. Its engineers run Fluent Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) program on an SGI Altix system."

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  1. Re:Roland Piquepaille & Speedo by StikyPad · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If by self-conscious jokes you mean something like: "Testicles and surgery! Those are two words I never want to see in the same sentence," then yes.

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