TY - JOUR
T1 - Aerodynamics of contemporary FIFA soccer balls
AU - Alam, Firoz
AU - Chowdhury, Harun
AU - Moria, Hazim
AU - Fuss, Franz Konstantin
AU - Khan, Iftekhar
AU - Aldawi, Fayez
AU - Subic, Aleksandar
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The soccer is the world's most popular and widely watched game. Due to increasing technological advancement and demand for performance, the ball manufacturers have been developing new designs progressively. A traditional spherical football made of 32 leather panels stitched together in 1970s has become only 14 synthetic curved panels thermally bonded without stitches ball in 2006 and more recently 8 panels football in 2010. Despite being most popular game in the world, scan data is available on aerodynamic properties of footballs especially Jabulani, Teamgeist and Fevernova balls. The primary objectives of this study were to evaluate aerodynamic performances of these three soccer balls. The aerodynamic forces and moments were measured experimentally for a range of wind speeds. The aerodynamic forces and their non-dimensional coefficients were determined and compared.
AB - The soccer is the world's most popular and widely watched game. Due to increasing technological advancement and demand for performance, the ball manufacturers have been developing new designs progressively. A traditional spherical football made of 32 leather panels stitched together in 1970s has become only 14 synthetic curved panels thermally bonded without stitches ball in 2006 and more recently 8 panels football in 2010. Despite being most popular game in the world, scan data is available on aerodynamic properties of footballs especially Jabulani, Teamgeist and Fevernova balls. The primary objectives of this study were to evaluate aerodynamic performances of these three soccer balls. The aerodynamic forces and moments were measured experimentally for a range of wind speeds. The aerodynamic forces and their non-dimensional coefficients were determined and compared.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-80051603044&doi=10.1016%2fj.proeng.2011.05.071&origin=inward&txGid=6dfd42a79f5873376a119816e77dc57f
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705811009854?via%3Dihub
U2 - 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.05.071
DO - 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.05.071
M3 - Article
SN - 1877-7058
VL - 13
SP - 188
EP - 193
JO - Procedia Engineering
JF - Procedia Engineering
ER -