Go to http://.silhouet.com/motorsport/report/1996renault.html
on bottom of page dimples on race cars.
dale
sunny and 66 suffering a cold in Pahrump
----- Original Message -----
From: "DrMayf" <drmayf@teknett.com>
Subject: Re: Arfon's Aerodynamics, a thought.
> Lots of things going on with a golf ball. For instance it rotates
backwards
> at nearly 10,000 rpm during flight (off a driver) and just off the club
> head. Tiger hits one and it may go faster. My personal thought is that the
> dimples simply are a way to collapse the air behind the ball so that it is
> less turbulent. Just my thought with no engineering behind it. Don't
think
> it works with cars though some claim it does. Not me. I want the air on
the
> skin of my car to be laminar and the boundary layer close. Least drag. You
> can hit the delete key now...
>
> mayf
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "DahMurf" <dahmurf_xl@yahoo.com>
> To: "John Szalay" <john.szalay@worldnet.att.net>;
> Subject: Re: Arfon's Aerodynamics, a thought.
>
>
> > > Has anyone looked at the golfball principle ?
> > > a dimpled skin on a streamliner. a golfball flys
> > > further because
> > > of the dimples, a smooth ball less. a rough skin on
> > > a baseball allows
> > > more distance.
> >
> >
> > Wasn't it Corbin that had the golf ball dimpled faring
> > on a bike on the salt?
> >
> > I wonder if we can really apply what works to either
> > ball to a vehicle. The baseball/golfball can rotate
> > while the bike/car can't. Exactly when do the dimples
> > provide benefit - while rotating or not?
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