Dependence of Aerodynamic Characteristics and Flow Pattern on Surface Structure of a Baseball

Journal of Visualization

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 185-193

  Aoki, Katsumi ^a   Kinoshita, Yasuhiro ^d   Nagase, Jiro ^b   Nakayama, Yasuki ^c  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGASE KENKO Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c Future Technology Research Institute   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Dimple; Drag coefficient; Lift coefficient; Seam; Spin rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038364274     PISSN: 13438875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03181623     Document Type: Conference Paper

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