The United States Golf Association (USGA) have many rules and regulations regarding the golf ball including defining the number of dimples on the surface of the ball. Whether a ball would reach the expected distance or not depends on three things: air flow, skill of the golfer and dimples on the golf. Golfers try to look for the perfect ball that would land at the right spot but the fact is there is none. One can neither control the weather nor the golfer’s skill. So there is one feature that has been left out to manipulate and that is the pimples. Now, engineers of the Arizona State University and the University of Maryland have come together to find out how the ball works. New York Times reports:
But now a team of mechanical engineers has constructed a computer model of a golf ball’s surface. The model simulates a golf ball moving through air, and allows the engineers to solve equations that describe air flow at more than a billion points across the ball’s surface. Running a typical simulation requires a supercomputer — the equivalent of more than 500 networked desktop computers running in parallel for more than 300 hours. The result is a vast amount of data about the local speed and pressure of the air around each dimple and around the ball.
The results found out through the procedure would help manufacturers to build better quality golf balls and even solving problems in airplanes, gas turbines and hosts of other devices.
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