TY - JOUR
T1 - Aerodynamics of baseball
AU - Alam, Firoz
AU - Ho, Huy
AU - Chowdhury, Harun
AU - Subic, Aleksandar
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Baseball is one of the popular games in America, North Asia and some parts of Europe and Africa. Despite being a popular game, scan data is not available on aerodynamic properties of baseball. Having over 108 curved stitches, complex seams and their orientation, the airflow around the ball is significantly complex and little understood. The primary objectives of this study were to evaluate aerodynamic performances of a commercially manufactured baseball. The aerodynamic forces and moments were measured experimentally for a range of wind speeds and seam orientations. The aerodynamic forces and their non-dimensional coefficients were analyzed.
AB - Baseball is one of the popular games in America, North Asia and some parts of Europe and Africa. Despite being a popular game, scan data is not available on aerodynamic properties of baseball. Having over 108 curved stitches, complex seams and their orientation, the airflow around the ball is significantly complex and little understood. The primary objectives of this study were to evaluate aerodynamic performances of a commercially manufactured baseball. The aerodynamic forces and moments were measured experimentally for a range of wind speeds and seam orientations. The aerodynamic forces and their non-dimensional coefficients were analyzed.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-80051615973&doi=10.1016%2fj.proeng.2011.05.074&partnerID=40&md5=166611fd2fdcefba565a3f49bc5aafae
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187770581100988X?via%3Dihub
U2 - 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.05.074
DO - 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.05.074
M3 - Conference article
SN - 1877-7058
VL - 13
SP - 207
EP - 212
JO - Procedia Engineering
JF - Procedia Engineering
ER -