When Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard triumphed in the 2022 edition of the world’s largest cycling event, the Tour de France, supercomputing played a part. Representing the Dutch team Jumbo Visma, Vingegaard and several of his teammates were assisted in their training by Belgian civil engineer Bert Blocken.
Bert Blocken is a Professor at the Department of the Built Environment at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands and at the Department of Civil Engineering at KU Leuven in Belgium. In wind tunnel trials he would help the riders find the optimally aerodynamic positions.
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